[ARROW-11965] [R][Docs] Fix install.packages command in R dev docs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation, R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27797
• Assignee: Mauricio 'Pachá' Vargas Sepúlveda
• Reporter: Diana Clarke
• Created: 14/Mar/21 17:24
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:23
• Resolved: 29/Mar/21 15:53

Description

Fix the following R command.

R -e 'install.packages(c("devtools", "roxygen2", "pkgdown", "covr")); devtools::install_dev_deps()'

Found in the following section of these docs: https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/

cd ../../r
R -e 'install.packages(c("devtools", "roxygen2", "pkgdown", "covr")); devtools::install_dev_deps()'
R CMD INSTALL .

Here are the errors I got:

Error in contrib.url(repos, type) :
  trying to use CRAN without setting a mirror

So instead I did that from an R prompt (and picked a mirror). Which mostly worked, except for this error:

Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called 'devtools'

ERROR: dependency ‘systemfonts’ is not available for package ‘textshaping’
* removing ‘/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/lib/R/library/textshaping’
ERROR: dependency ‘gert’ is not available for package ‘usethis’
* removing ‘/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/lib/R/library/usethis’
ERROR: dependencies ‘systemfonts’, ‘textshaping’ are not available for package ‘ragg’
* removing ‘/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/lib/R/library/ragg’
ERROR: dependency ‘usethis’ is not available for package ‘devtools’
* removing ‘/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/lib/R/library/devtools’
ERROR: dependency ‘ragg’ is not available for package ‘pkgdown’
* removing ‘/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/lib/R/library/pkgdown’

Which I ignored and just tried "R CMD INSTALL ." again, but then I got this error:

ERROR: dependencies 'bit64', 'tidyselect' are not available for package 'arrow'

So then I also did this from an R prompt:

install.packages(c("bit64", "tidyselect"))

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9797