ARROW-7859: [R] Minor patches for CRAN submission 0.16.0.2

Closes #6426 from nealrichardson/0.16.0.2-patch and squashes the following commits:

04d7e72 <Neal Richardson> News
01d2ffd <Neal Richardson> 0.16.0.2 followup

Authored-by: Neal Richardson <neal.p.richardson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>

r/Makefile

@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ check: build
 	-export _R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE_=FALSE && export ARROW_R_DEV=$(ARROW_R_DEV) && export _R_CHECK_TESTS_NLINES_=0 && R CMD check --as-cran --run-donttest arrow_$(VERSION).tar.gz
 	rm -rf arrow.Rcheck/
 
+release: build
+	-export _R_CHECK_TESTS_NLINES_=0 && R CMD check --as-cran --run-donttest arrow_$(VERSION).tar.gz
+	rm -rf arrow.Rcheck/
+
 clean:
 	-rm src/*.o
 	-rm src/*.so

r/NEWS.md

@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@
 
 # arrow 0.16.0.9000
 
-
-* `write_feather`, `write_arrow` and `write_parquet` now return their input
-similar to `write_*` functions from `readr` (#6387, @boshek)
-* Dataset filtering is now correctly supported for all Arrow date/time/timestamp column types.
+* `install_arrow()` now installs the latest release of `arrow`, including Linux dependencies, either for CRAN releases or for development builds (if `nightly = TRUE`)
+* Package installation on Linux no longer downloads C++ dependencies unless the `LIBARROW_DOWNLOAD` or `NOT_CRAN` enviroment variable is set
+* `write_feather()`, `write_arrow()` and `write_parquet()` now return their input,
+similar to the `write_*` functions in the `readr` package (#6387, @boshek)
 * Can now infer the type of an R `list` and create a ListArray when all list elements are the same type (#6275, @michaelchirico)
+* Dataset filtering is now correctly supported for all Arrow date/time/timestamp column types.
 
 # arrow 0.16.0
 

r/R/install-arrow.R

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 #' necessary C++ dependencies. `vignette("install", package = "arrow")` for
 #' more ways to tune installation on Linux.
 install_arrow <- function(nightly = FALSE,
-                          binary = TRUE,
-                          use_system = FALSE,
+                          binary = Sys.getenv("LIBARROW_BINARY", TRUE),
+                          use_system = Sys.getenv("ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG", FALSE),
                           repos = getOption("repos"),
                           ...) {
   if (tolower(Sys.info()[["sysname"]]) %in% c("windows", "darwin", "linux")) {

r/README.md

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ or if you can’t get a binary version of the latest C++ library
 elsewhere, you’ll need to build it from source too.
 
 First, install the C++ library. See the [developer
-guide](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/index.html) for details.
+guide](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/cpp/building.html) for details.
 
 Note that after any change to the C++ library, you must reinstall it and
 run `make clean` or `git clean -fdx .` to remove any cached object code
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ libraries and want to upgrade the R package, you’ll need to update the
 Arrow C++ library first.
 
 For any other build/configuration challenges, see the [C++ developer
-guide](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/cpp.html#building) and
+guide](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/cpp/building.html) and
 `vignette("install", package = "arrow")`.
 
 ### Editing Rcpp code