[ARROW-10530] [R] Optionally use distro package in linuxlibs.R

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26499
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Neal Richardson
• Created: 09/Nov/20 20:33
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:13
• Resolved: 16/Nov/20 18:57

Description

distro is now on CRAN. The script should prefer the package version if present, which may be updated/patched apart from arrow.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8618
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8650