Install or upgrade the Arrow library

Use this function to install the latest release of arrow, to switch to or from a nightly development version, or on Linux to try reinstalling with all necessary C++ dependencies.

install_arrow(
  nightly = FALSE,
  binary = Sys.getenv("LIBARROW_BINARY", TRUE),
  use_system = Sys.getenv("ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG", FALSE),
  minimal = Sys.getenv("LIBARROW_MINIMAL", FALSE),
  repos = getOption("repos"),
  ...
)

Arguments

nightly	logical: Should we install a development version of the package, or should we install from CRAN (the default).
binary	On Linux, value to set for the environment variable `LIBARROW_BINARY`, which governs how C++ binaries are used, if at all. The default value, `TRUE`, tells the installation script to detect the Linux distribution and version and find an appropriate C++ library. `FALSE` would tell the script not to retrieve a binary and instead build Arrow C++ from source. Other valid values are strings corresponding to a Linux distribution-version, to override the value that would be detected. See `vignette("install", package = "arrow")` for further details.
use_system	logical: Should we use `pkg-config` to look for Arrow system packages? Default is `FALSE`. If `TRUE`, source installation may be faster, but there is a risk of version mismatch.
minimal	logical: If building from source, should we build without optional dependencies (compression libraries, for example)? Default is `FALSE`.
repos	character vector of base URLs of the repositories to install from (passed to `install.packages()`)
...	Additional arguments passed to `install.packages()`

Arguments

See also