[ARROW-4998] [R] R package fails to install on OSX

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: R
• Environment: OSX Mojave 10.4 ; R 3.5.2 ; Rstudio 1.1.463 ; boost 1.69.0
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21498
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jordan Ryda
• Created: 22/Mar/19 14:50
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:37
• Resolved: 08/Feb/20 01:55

Description

Following a successful homebrew install of apache arrow, on running devtools::install_github("apache/arrow/r") within RStudio the compilation + installation all but completes successfully:

 

** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error: package or namespace load failed for 'arrow' in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library/arrow/libs/arrow.so':
  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/library/arrow/libs/arrow.so, 6): Symbol not found: __ZN5boost11basic_regexIcNS_12regex_traitsIcNS_16cpp_regex_traitsIcEEEEE9do_assignEPKcS7_j
  Referenced from: /usr/local/opt/apache-arrow/lib/libparquet.12.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/local/opt/boost/lib/libboost_regex-mt.dylib
 in /usr/local/opt/apache-arrow/lib/libparquet.12.dylib
Error: loading failed

boost 1.69.0 is already installed and up-to-date.