[R] Installation can't use prebuilt Arrow binaries on Pop! OS

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As tweeted by several folks on Twitter. As I understand it, Pop! OS is built on Ubuntu and we could map that distro to the Ubuntu binaries (As suggested by Nic!)

Reprex:

# docker pull hugojosefson/popos
# docker run --rm -it hugojosefson/popos
apt-get update && apt-get install -y r-base
R -e "install.packages(c('bit', 'magrittr', 'ellipsis', 'glue', 'assertthat', 'bit64', 'purrr', 'R6', 'rlang', 'tidyselect', 'vctrs'))"
NOT_CRAN=true R -e "install.packages('arrow')"

# ...
# ** using staged installation
# *** No C++ binaries found for pop-20
# *** Found local C++ source: 'tools/cpp'
# ...

Where alias distributions get set: https://github.com/ursa-labs/arrow-r-nightly/blob/master/linux/distro-map.csv

Reporter: Dewey Dunnington / @paleolimbot

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #11870

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-14992. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Jonathan Keane / @jonkeane:
Issue resolved by pull request 11870
#11870