[ARROW-18062] [R] error in CI jobs for R 3.5 and 3.6 when R package being installed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33263
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Nicola Crane
• Created: 14/Oct/22 15:49
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:58
• Resolved: 15/Oct/22 00:40

Description

e.g. https://github.com/ursacomputing/crossbow/actions/runs/3246698242/jobs/5325752692#step:5:3164

From the install logs on that CI job:

** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘arrow’:
 .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'arrow', details:
  call: fun_cache[[unqualified_name]] <- fun
  error: invalid type/length (closure/0) in vector allocation
Error: loading failed

It is currently erroring for R 3.5 and 3.6 in the nightlies with this error.

The line of code where the error comes from was added in ARROW-16444 but seeing as that was 3 months ago, it seems unlikely that this change introduced the error.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14424