[ARROW-15673] [R] Error gracefully if DuckDB isn't installed

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31127
• Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld
• Reporter: Jonathan Keane
• Created: 14/Feb/22 00:09
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:38
• Resolved: 23/Feb/22 22:36

Description

Right now, the function to_duckdb() doesn't check to confirm that DuckDB is available. The error message isn't the worst (it'll mention duckdb::... not being found) it would be nicer to specifically tell folks they need to install the duckdb package.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12486