RStudio Cloud installs arrow package without support for compression or S3

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Hi,

You could try something like this and install the package directly from RSPM:

> options(repos = c(RPSM = "https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest"))
> options('repos')
$repos
                                                            RPSM 
"https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest" 

> install.packages('arrow')
Installing package into ‘/home/rstudio-user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/__linux__/xenial/latest/src/contrib/arrow_3.0.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'binary/octet-stream' length 17238743 bytes (16.4 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 16.4 MB

* installing *binary* package ‘arrow’ ...
* DONE (arrow)

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpuvUCSu/downloaded_packages’
> library(arrow)

Attaching package: ‘arrow’

The following object is masked from ‘package:utils’:

    timestamp

> arrow_with_s3()
[1] TRUE

RStudio Cloud doesn't use RSPM by default because a handful of binary packages it produces are not compatible with RStudio Cloud. We're working to address that issue, but I think you should be totally fine in this case.

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