[ARROW-5614] [R] Error: 'install_arrow' is not an exported object from 'namespace:arrow'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: R
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22053
• Assignee: Neal Richardson
• Reporter: Thomas Buhrmann
• Created: 14/Jun/19 18:03
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:41
• Resolved: 14/Jun/19 18:25

Description

I'm trying to get the R package installed in a Debian docker image that already contains R and RStudio (via rocker/rstudio from dockerhub), as well as arrow-cpp, parquet-cpp and pyarrow installed via conda. I.e. I should have all required arrow dependencies in my conda environment's /lib and /include folders.

I then tried to install the R package in two ways (as stated in the README, having devtools, and after managing to get git2r installed)

1/ via remotes

remotes::install_github("apache/arrow/r", ref="76e1bc5dfb9d08e31eddd5cbcc0b1bab934da2c7")

2/ from source

git clone https://github.com/apache/arrow.git
cd arrow/r
R -e 'remotes::install_deps()'
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=/root/miniconda/envs/my_env/include    LIB_DIR=/root/miniconda/envs/my_env/lib' .

In both cases the install seems to work fine:

** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** checking absolute paths in shared objects and dynamic libraries
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (arrow)

 But when I then do the following as prompted:

library(arrow)
arrow::install_arrow()

The result is

Error: 'install_arrow' is not an exported object from 'namespace:arrow'

And running the example without calling that non-existing function I get the error

Error in Table__from_dots(dots, schema) : 
  Cannot call Table__from_dots(). Please use arrow::install_arrow() to install required runtime libraries. 

So I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if the documentation isn't up to date? Specifically, what is the arrow::install_arrow() function supposed to install, given that I already have the arrow and parquet libs and headers installed, and supposedly they've been used (linked to) when I installed the R package?

In general, is there any way to get this package installed in the above context (arrow-cpp etc. installed via conda)?

Issue Links

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