[ARROW-14992] [R] Installation can't use prebuilt Arrow binaries on Pop! OS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/30513
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dewey Dunnington
• Created: 06/Dec/21 13:18
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:43
• Resolved: 07/Dec/21 19:51

Description

As tweeted by several folks on Twitter. As I understand it, Pop! OS is built on Ubuntu and we could map that distro to the Ubuntu binaries (As suggested by Nic!)

Reprex:

# docker pull hugojosefson/popos
# docker run --rm -it hugojosefson/popos
apt-get update && apt-get install -y r-base
R -e "install.packages(c('bit', 'magrittr', 'ellipsis', 'glue', 'assertthat', 'bit64', 'purrr', 'R6', 'rlang', 'tidyselect', 'vctrs'))"
NOT_CRAN=true R -e "install.packages('arrow')"

# ...
# ** using staged installation
# *** No C++ binaries found for pop-20
# *** Found local C++ source: 'tools/cpp'
# ...

Where alias distributions get set: https://github.com/ursa-labs/arrow-r-nightly/blob/master/linux/distro-map.csv

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11870