[jira] [Created] (ARROW-16639) [R] Improve package installation on Fedora 36

["Dewey Dunnington (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Dewey Dunnington created ARROW-16639:
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             Summary: [R] Improve package installation on Fedora 36
                 Key: ARROW-16639
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16639
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: R
            Reporter: Dewey Dunnington


Fedora 36 includes both a 'libarrow' and a 'libarrow-dataset' package under pkg-config names 'arrow' and 'arrow-dataset', respectively. When we do {{install.packages("arrow")}} on Fedora 36, the pkg-config for 'arrow' gets picked up first, and we get a minimal arrow install. Installing with {{NOT_CRAN=true ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG=false}} results in a full compiled installation because binaries are not available for fedora-36 (according to the install output).

Reported by Roger Bivand (while testing GDAL + Arrow support since Fedora 36 is the easiest place to do that due to system Arrow): https://github.com/paleolimbot/narrow/issues/7

Reproducble using the {{fedora:36}} docker container:


{code:bash}
# docker run --rm -it fedora:36
dnf install -y R libarrow-dataset-devel cmake
R -e 'install.packages("arrow", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")'
R -e 'arrow::arrow_info()$capabilities'
{code}




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