[R-pkg-devel] Package required but not available: ‘arrow’

[Nic Crane]

FWIW the arrow maintainers are aware of this and we submitted a fix to CRAN
a couple of weeks ago, which is currently in the review queue at
https://cran.r-project.org/incoming/pending/

Nic

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 at 09:22, Park, Sung Jae <spark7 using ufl.edu> wrote:

> Thank you so much for all of you! I haven’t thought that ‘arrow’ package
> itself will have an error.
> Since ‘arrow’ package isn’t a crucial component of our package, I made
> ‘arrow’ package into ‘Suggests’ and update cran-comment.md accordingly.
> I appreciate your advice once again.
>
> Best,
> --Sungjae
>
> From: Dénes Tóth <toth.denes using kogentum.hu>
> Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 6:47 AM
> To: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>, Park, Sung Jae <
> spark7 using ufl.edu>, r-package-devel using r-project.org <
> r-package-devel using r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package required but not available: ‘arrow’
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> Depending on your use case you can also take a look at the nanoarrow
> package (
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcran.r-project.org%2Fpackage%3Dnanoarrow&data=05%7C02%7Cspark7%40ufl.edu%7C1e2fd4f4cb684488106208dc339c0e93%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C638441992558568835%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uJO%2BkxcEtEoDRg9ynyEYuOOCjO%2B30L05lwqIaPifijE%3D&reserved=0
> <https://cran.r-project.org/package=nanoarrow>). Maybe it
> provides all the features you need and has a much smaller footprint than
> 'arrow'.
>
> Best,
> Denes
>
>
> On 2/22/24 10:01, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > If you look on the CRAN check results for arrow, you'll see it has
> > errors on the Linux platforms that use clang, and can't be installed
> there.
> >
> > For you to deal with this, you should make arrow into a suggested
> > package, and if it is missing, work around that without generating an
> > error.  Another choice would be to work with the arrow developers to get
> > it to install on the systems where it fails now, but it's a big package,
> > so that would likely be a lot harder.
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
> >
> > On 21/02/2024 5:15 p.m., Park, Sung Jae wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I’m writing to seek assistance regarding an issue we’re encountering
> >> during the submission process of our new package to CRAN.
> >> The package in question is currently working smoothly on R CMD check
> >> on Windows; however, we are facing a specific error when running R CMD
> >> check on Debian. The error message we’ve got from CRAN is as follows:
> >>
> >> ```
> >> ❯ checking package dependencies ... ERROR
> >>    Package required but not available: ‘arrow’
> >>
> >>    See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
> >> manual.
> >> ```
> >>
> >> We have ensured that the ‘arrow’ package is properly listed in
> >> DESCRIPTION file under the ‘Imports:’.
> >> Could you please provide guidance on how to resolve this? Any help
> >> will be valuable.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> --Sungjae
> >>
> >>
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