Perhaps an R conda-forge feedstock? I'm not sure how widely conda-forge is used in the R commmunity, but it already hosts around a thousand packages[1].
[1] https://github.com/conda-forge?&q=r- On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 6:09 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi folks, > > With 0.12 around the corner and significant progress on the R bindings > project (sufficient for Spark integration [1]), I am wondering how > everyday R users are going to be able to install the software > respectively on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Thoughts about the strategy > for this? > > Thanks > Wes > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/3001 >