eitsupi opened a new issue, #44018: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44018
### Describe the enhancement requested Related to #43030 Binary builds on CRAN are unreliable, and builds on R-universe will be faster and more versatile if we can use libarrow with feature flags enabled. Since R-universe sets an environment variable called `MY_UNIVERSE`, I am wondering if it is possible to check this environment variable to enable binary downloads. Normally, downloading binaries of unknown origin would not be very welcome, but I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages here. Here is an example of the polars package that have such a mechanism. https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars/blob/77bba3cf53a0fbaee139514b21b8d8ed0a087f6d/configure#L52-L61 ### Component(s) R -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
