[jira] [Created] (ARROW-14218) [R] More improvements to developer docs

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

Nicola Crane created ARROW-14218:
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             Summary: [R] More improvements to developer docs
                 Key: ARROW-14218
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14218
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: R
            Reporter: Nicola Crane
             Fix For: 7.0.0


* Add link to the main contributions guidelines

* Add a test of "how I know that my dev setup is OK?" to the end of the R-only step

* The R-only instructions just have instructions on how to install libarrow but we should add a little about how to connect it up with the repo clone; the instructions mention it in the Linux version but could be more explicit

* When a user clones the repo via RStudio it creates an .rproj file in the root directory - we should add an instructions to clone the arrow fork from the command line so we can use the project's .rproj file

* We should consider removing the instruction for installing the released version of libarrow (or demoting it to the second place and explain why we'd use it) as typically a dev would want the dev version




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