[ARROW-10780] [R] Update known R installation issues for CentOS 7

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26721
• Assignee: Matt Pollock
• Reporter: Matt Pollock
• Created: 01/Dec/20 13:49
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:15
• Resolved: 01/Dec/20 23:14

Description

Hello, I installed arrow using

  Sys.setenv(ARROW_R_DEV=TRUE)
  source("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/arrow/master/r/R/install-arrow.R")
  install_arrow(binary = FALSE, use_system = FALSE)

It shouldn't matter, but I also checked that the system parquet-devel/arrow-devel are both on version 2.0.0 (I'm on CentOS 7). I'm using R 4.0.3. However using any arrow function causes a segfault, for example:

> library(arrow)

Attaching package: ‘arrow’

The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:

    timestamp

> arrow_available()
[1] TRUE
> write_parquet(iris, "~/iris4")

 *** caught segfault ***
address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
 1: Table__from_dots(dots, schema)
 2: shared_ptr_is_null(xp)
 3: shared_ptr(Table, Table__from_dots(dots, schema))
 4: Table$create(x)
 5: write_parquet(iris, "~/iris4")

I have tried various installation methods (source/binary, system packages or not, even the nightly build). The only thing I've gotten to work is to revert to the 1.0.1 version of arrow. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8813