[R] error in CI jobs for R 3.5 and 3.6 when R package being installed

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e.g. https://github.com/ursacomputing/crossbow/actions/runs/3246698242/jobs/5325752692#step:5:3164

From the install logs on that CI job:

** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘arrow’:
 .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'arrow', details:
  call: fun_cache[[unqualified_name]] <- fun
  error: invalid type/length (closure/0) in vector allocation
Error: loading failed

It is currently erroring for R 3.5 and 3.6 in the nightlies with this error.

The line of code where the error comes from was added in ARROW-16444 but seeing as that was 3 months ago, it seems unlikely that this change introduced the error.

Reporter: Nicola Crane / @thisisnic
Assignee: Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #14424

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-18062. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
The slice PR added a UDF registration in .onLoad: 02c671a...dd9c224#diff-d33e59c0468a492a62bbb832ed1b4a925e201bbe20cd22b36f24c2483f8bc738R165

Are UDFs known not to work on R < 4.0?

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Issue resolved by pull request 14424
#14424