[R] Improve R docs on how to fix library version mismatch

[asfimport]

hi there,

when trying to build the R wrapper using 

remotes::install_github("apache/arrow", subdir = "r")

I hit the following error:

Found pkg-config cflags and libs!
 PKG_CFLAGS=-DNDEBUG -DARROW_R_WITH_ARROW
 PKG_LIBS=-larrow -lparquet** libsg++ -std=gnu++11 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -DARROW_R_WITH_ARROW -I"/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-VjHo9C/r-base-3.6.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c array.cpp -o array.o
 g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DNDEBUG -DARROW_R_WITH_ARROW -I"/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -fvisibility=hidden -fpic -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-VjHo9C/r-base-3.6.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c array_to_vector.cpp -o arrayto_vector.oarrayto_vector.cpp: In function 'Rcpp::List Table_to_dataframe(const std::shared_ptr<arrow::Table>&, bool)':
 array__to_vector.cpp:819:65: error: 'using element_type = class arrow::Column {aka class arrow::Column}' has no member named 'chunks'
 converters[i] = arrow::r::Converter::Make(table->column->chunks());
 ^~~~~~array__to_vector.cpp:820:23: error: 'using element_type = class arrow::Table {aka class arrow::Table}' has no member named 'field'
 names[i] = table->field->name();
 ^~~~~/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:176: recipe for target 'array__to_vector.o' failedmake: *** [array__to_vector.o] Error 1ERROR: compilation failed for package 'arrow'* removing '/home/kchia/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6/arrow'Error: Failed to install 'arrow' from GitHub:
 (converted from warning) installation of package '/tmp/RtmpfYJZFa/file33fc6aee0ae6/arrow_0.14.0.9000.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

Environment: > sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Reporter: kohleth
Assignee: Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #4946

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-6029. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

[asfimport]

Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
How did you install the C++ library? This looks like a mismatch between the R and C++ library versions. One R-only solution would be to install_github with a specific ref, a release tag like "apache-arrow-0.14.1", that matches the C++ library version you have. 

[asfimport]

Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Agreed with Neal, you need to ensure that the installed C++ library version matches the R package version being installed. The git version of the R library includes features not found in the 0.14.0/0.14.1 C++ library

[asfimport]

Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
I'll use this to improve the R docs on how to interpret/fix this.

[asfimport]

Francois Saint-Jacques / @fsaintjacques:
Issue resolved by pull request 4946
#4946

[asfimport]

kohleth:
Thanks! it is indeed the version mismatch.