[ARROW-12602] [R] Add BuildInfo from C++ to arrow_info

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28356
• Assignee: Weston Pace
• Reporter: Weston Pace
• Created: 29/Apr/21 15:59
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:27
• Resolved: 04/May/21 20:54

Description

In the C++ library there is arrow::BuildInfo and arrow::GetBuildInfo which provides captures some information from the build that created the library.  Some of this we may want to add to R.

C++ library version -> Yes.  Should be lockstep with the R version but couldn't hurt and may not match during custom builds.
C++ SO version -> No.  I don't know enough about this to know how it differs from the library version and it seems it would be more confusing than helpful.

C++ compiler info -> Yes.  The compiler ID and compiler flags should again be pretty standard if obtained from CRAN but could be useful for custom builds.

C++ package kind -> No. This is useful in python where there is a distinction (pypi vs conda) but I don't think it would have a meaningful value in R.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10200