[ARROW-15235] [R] drop support for R 3.3

• 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/30733
• Assignee: Jonathan Keane
• Reporter: Jonathan Keane
• Created: 03/Jan/22 16:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:45
• Resolved: 07/Jan/22 17:39

Description

Glue no longer supports R 3.3 [1]. We only use glue ourselves in codegen, but vctrs imports glue, so we transitively depend on it.

Our r versions nightly build is failing 3.3 because of this:
https://github.com/ursacomputing/crossbow/runs/4688293849?check_suite_focus=true

#14 28.34 Installing 1 packages: glue
#14 40.04 Error: Failed to install 'glue' from CRAN:
#14 40.04   (converted from warning) package ‘glue’ is not available (for R version 3.3.3)
#14 40.04 Execution halted
#14 ERROR: executor failed running [/bin/sh -c /arrow/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh /arrow]: exit code: 1
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 > importing cache manifest from apache/arrow-dev:r-rstudio-r-base-3.3-bionic:
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 > [10/10] RUN /arrow/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh /arrow:
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executor failed running [/bin/sh -c /arrow/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh /arrow]: exit code: 1
Service 'r' failed to build : Build failed
Error: `docker-compose --file /home/runner/work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/docker-compose.yml build --build-arg BUILDKIT_INLINE_CACHE=1 r` exited with a non-zero exit code 1, see the process log above.

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/glue/index.html

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12072