Re: Arrow R package

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

On 24 September 2025 at 16:49, Steffen Möller wrote:
| just to keep you all in the loop. An r-cran-arrow package is produced by the current packaging effort of apache-arrow.  You are all fine with that, right?
| 
| Once I get some positive vibes about it, I would want to upload to experimental if not unstable. Bz2 and zstd I would want to see, still. Other blockers?
| 
| Best,
| Steffen
| 
| > arrow_info()
| 
| acero      TRUE
| dataset    TRUE
| substrait FALSE
| parquet    TRUE
| json       TRUE
| s3        FALSE
| gcs       FALSE

These two cloud libraries are very useful in many contexts but hard to
package due to the SDKs needed. I am totally fine with skipping these.

| utf8proc   TRUE
| re2        TRUE
| snappy     TRUE
| gzip       TRUE
| brotli    FALSE
| zstd      FALSE

These two compressors should be easy to add as we have the lib*-dev packages.

| lz4        TRUE
| lz4_frame  TRUE
| lzo       FALSE
| bz2       FALSE

These two compressors should be easy to add as we have the lib*-dev packages.

| jemalloc  FALSE

This one should be easy (libjemalloc-dev) but I am not sure I care :)

| mimalloc   TRUE
| 
| Memory:
| 
| Allocator mimalloc
| Current    0 bytes
| Max        0 bytes
| 
| Runtime:
| 
| SIMD Level          sse4_2
| Detected SIMD Level sse4_2

My locally built arrow has a better optimisation but such is life. This
choice seems fine.
 
| Build:
| 
| C++ Library Version                                    21.0.0
| C++ Compiler                                              GNU
| C++ Compiler Version                                   15.2.0
| Git ID               72b7209c8cd25dc974accdc65c1bd9c7dcc2d7a

Thanks for your persistence in packaging this.

Cheers, Dirk


-- 
dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org