[ARROW-5328] [R] Add shell scripts to do a full package rebuild and test locally

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: R
• Labels: release
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21789
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 15/May/19 18:52
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:39
• Resolved: 25/Jun/19 14:27

Description

The R package development instructions in https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/r/README.Rmd expect that the developer is working in a particular R-console-centric way, perhaps within RStudio or similar. I think we should have scripts that enable development to be performed entirely on the command line. This would probably already exist, except that our Travis-CI setup is relying on some non-Arrow-specific scripts that live outside of this repository.

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-5555 [R] Add install_arrow() function to assist the user in obtaining C++ runtime libraries