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<h1>Install or upgrade the Arrow library</h1>
<small class="dont-index">Source: <a href="https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/r/R/install-arrow.R" class="external-link"><code>R/install-arrow.R</code></a></small>
<div class="d-none name"><code>install_arrow.Rd</code></div>
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<p>Use this function to install the latest release of <code>arrow</code>, to switch to or
from a nightly development version, or on Linux to try reinstalling with
all necessary C++ dependencies.</p>
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<h2 id="ref-usage">Usage<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#ref-usage"></a></h2>
<div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code><span><span class="fu">install_arrow</span><span class="op">(</span></span>
<span> nightly <span class="op">=</span> <span class="cn">FALSE</span>,</span>
<span> binary <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html" class="external-link">Sys.getenv</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"LIBARROW_BINARY"</span>, <span class="cn">TRUE</span><span class="op">)</span>,</span>
<span> use_system <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html" class="external-link">Sys.getenv</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG"</span>, <span class="cn">FALSE</span><span class="op">)</span>,</span>
<span> minimal <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html" class="external-link">Sys.getenv</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"LIBARROW_MINIMAL"</span>, <span class="cn">FALSE</span><span class="op">)</span>,</span>
<span> verbose <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html" class="external-link">Sys.getenv</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"ARROW_R_DEV"</span>, <span class="cn">FALSE</span><span class="op">)</span>,</span>
<span> repos <span class="op">=</span> <span class="fu"><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/base/options.html" class="external-link">getOption</a></span><span class="op">(</span><span class="st">"repos"</span><span class="op">)</span>,</span>
<span> <span class="va">...</span></span>
<span><span class="op">)</span></span></code></pre></div>
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<h2 id="arguments">Arguments<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arguments"></a></h2>
<dl><dt id="arg-nightly">nightly<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-nightly"></a></dt>
<dd><p>logical: Should we install a development version of the
package, or should we install from CRAN (the default).</p></dd>
<dt id="arg-binary">binary<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-binary"></a></dt>
<dd><p>On Linux, value to set for the environment variable
<code>LIBARROW_BINARY</code>, which governs how C++ binaries are used, if at all.
The default value, <code>TRUE</code>, tells the installation script to detect the
Linux distribution and version and find an appropriate C++ library. <code>FALSE</code>
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 the
<a href="https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html">install guide</a>
for further details.</p></dd>
<dt id="arg-use-system">use_system<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-use-system"></a></dt>
<dd><p>logical: Should we use <code>pkg-config</code> to look for Arrow
system packages? Default is <code>FALSE</code>. If <code>TRUE</code>, source installation may be
faster, but there is a risk of version mismatch. This sets the
<code>ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG</code> environment variable.</p></dd>
<dt id="arg-minimal">minimal<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-minimal"></a></dt>
<dd><p>logical: If building from source, should we build without
optional dependencies (compression libraries, for example)? Default is
<code>FALSE</code>. This sets the <code>LIBARROW_MINIMAL</code> environment variable.</p></dd>
<dt id="arg-verbose">verbose<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-verbose"></a></dt>
<dd><p>logical: Print more debugging output when installing? Default
is <code>FALSE</code>. This sets the <code>ARROW_R_DEV</code> environment variable.</p></dd>
<dt id="arg-repos">repos<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-repos"></a></dt>
<dd><p>character vector of base URLs of the repositories to install
from (passed to <code><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/utils/install.packages.html" class="external-link">install.packages()</a></code>)</p></dd>
<dt id="arg--">...<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg--"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Additional arguments passed to <code><a href="https://rdrr.io/r/utils/install.packages.html" class="external-link">install.packages()</a></code></p></dd>
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<h2 id="details">Details<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#details"></a></h2>
<p>Note that, unlike packages like <code>tensorflow</code>, <code>blogdown</code>, and others that
require external dependencies, you do not need to run <code>install_arrow()</code>
after a successful <code>arrow</code> installation.</p>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#see-also"></a></h2>
<div class="dont-index"><p><code><a href="arrow_info.html">arrow_info()</a></code> to see if the package was configured with
necessary C++ dependencies.
<a href="https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html">install guide</a>
for more ways to tune installation on Linux.</p></div>
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