[ARROW-5134] [R][CI] Run nightly tests against multiple R versions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: Continuous Integration, R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21617
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 08/Apr/19 10:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:38
• Resolved: 21/Aug/19 02:34

Description

This requires to fix the docker-compose build of R, which is failing currently:
https://travis-ci.org/kszucs/crossbow/builds/508343597

Reproducible locally with command:

docker-compose build cpp
docker-compose build r
docker-compose run r

Then introduce an R_VERSION build argument to the dockerfile, similarly like
the python docker-compose defines and uses PYTHON_VERSION, see:

• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/Dockerfile#L21
• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docker-compose.yml#L247-L259

Then add to the nightly builds, similarly like python:

• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/dev/tasks/tests.yml#L29-L31
• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/dev/tasks/tests.yml#L153-L184

There is already a docker-r definition, the only difference is to export an
R_VERSION environment variable.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5121