[jira] [Created] (ARROW-12743) [R] Add additional DESCRIPTION fields for dev dependencies and update docs accordingly

["Nic Crane (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Nic Crane created ARROW-12743:
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             Summary: [R] Add additional DESCRIPTION fields for dev dependencies and update docs accordingly
                 Key: ARROW-12743
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12743
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Nic Crane


Recent updates to the remotes package mean that additional fields can be added to a package's DESCRIPTION and remotes functions can take the field as a parameter and install these additional dependencies: https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/master/NEWS.md#new-functions-and-features

We could update DESCRIPTION to use these fields and update the docs to use this functionality of remotes instead of having separate references to packages to install.

 



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