[R] Function not declared in scope

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Starting with ARROW-13111, CI for R versions 3.4 and 3.3 have been failing with:

In file included from ./arrow_types.h:22:0,
                 from altrep.cpp:18:
././arrow_cpp11.h: In lambda function:
././arrow_cpp11.h:108:23: error: ‘STRING_PTR_RO’ was not declared in this scope
     const SEXP* p_x = STRING_PTR_RO(x);
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
././arrow_cpp11.h:108:23: note: suggested alternative: ‘STRING_PTR’
     const SEXP* p_x = STRING_PTR_RO(x);
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                       STRING_PTR
altrep.cpp: In function ‘std::shared_ptr<arrow::Array> arrow::r::altrep::vec_to_arrow_altrep_bypass(SEXP)’:
altrep.cpp:709:24: error: ambiguating new declaration of ‘std::shared_ptr<arrow::Array> arrow::r::altrep::vec_to_arrow_altrep_bypass(SEXP)’
 std::shared_ptr<Array> vec_to_arrow_altrep_bypass(SEXP x) { return nullptr; }
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from altrep.cpp:18:0:
./arrow_types.h:190:31: note: old declaration ‘std::shared_ptr<arrow::ChunkedArray> arrow::r::altrep::vec_to_arrow_altrep_bypass(SEXP)’
 std::shared_ptr<ChunkedArray> vec_to_arrow_altrep_bypass(SEXP);
                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/opt/R/3.4.4/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/arrow/r/check/arrow.Rcheck/00_pkg_src/arrow/libarrow/arrow-6.0.1.9000/include  -DARROW_R_WITH_ARROW -DARROW_R_WITH_PARQUET -DARROW_R_WITH_DATASET -DARROW_R_WITH_S3 -DARROW_R_WITH_JSON -I../inst/include/  -I/usr/local/include   -fpic  -g -O2 -c array.cpp -o array.o
In file included from ./arrow_types.h:22:0,
                 from array.cpp:18:
././arrow_cpp11.h: In lambda function:
././arrow_cpp11.h:108:23: error: ‘STRING_PTR_RO’ was not declared in this scope
     const SEXP* p_x = STRING_PTR_RO(x);
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/R/3.4.4/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:168: recipe for target 'altrep.o' failed
make: *** [altrep.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
././arrow_cpp11.h:108:23: note: suggested alternative: ‘STRING_PTR’
     const SEXP* p_x = STRING_PTR_RO(x);
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                       STRING_PTR
/opt/R/3.4.4/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:168: recipe for target 'array.o' failed
make: *** [array.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘arrow’
* removing ‘/arrow/r/check/arrow.Rcheck/arrow’

https://github.com/ursacomputing/crossbow/runs/4295709576?check_suite_focus=true#step:8:1402

It looks like we need a bit more gating here to only use this code when altrep is available in R

Reporter: Jonathan Keane / @jonkeane
Assignee: Jonathan Keane / @jonkeane

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #11772

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-14803. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Nicola Crane / @thisisnic:
Issue resolved by pull request 11772
#11772