MINOR: [R] progress towards removing Assertthat dependency

[olivroy]

Rationale for this change

To get rid of assertthat dependency

What changes are included in this PR?

• progress towards removing assertthat dependency (replaced by rlang's type checkers)

Are these changes tested?

By existing tests.

Are there any user-facing changes?

No, only error messages standardized.

I have not been able to install the dev version locally, so I would need the workflows to be run, so that I could adjust the tests.

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[olivroy]

Still a draft, but wanted to ping for you to activate the workflow run, so I could see the test results, so I could adjust them.

[thisisnic]

Thanks for the PR @olivroy! Can you expand more about trying to get the dev version working locally - what have you tried and what errors are you getting? It'll be easier if we help you with that first, as building iteratively on CI burns through a lot of machine time and is a really frustrating process as you wait for the builds to complete which takes much longer than just running devtools::test() once your setup is working.

[olivroy]

I understand.. I am not very good with that. but when I call devtools::load_all(), I get this

── R CMD INSTALL ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
─  installing *source* package 'arrow' ... (1.5s)
   ** this is package 'arrow' version '25.0.0.9000'
   ** using staged installation
   *** pkg-config found.
   *** No nightly binaries were found for version 25.0.0.9000: falling back to libarrow build from source
   *** Unable to retrieve libarrow for version 25.0.0.9000 (windows-x86_64)
   *** Proceeding without libarrow (build not authorized)
   Arrow C++ library was not found
   ------------------------- NOTE ---------------------------
   There was an issue preparing the Arrow C++ libraries.
   See https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html

I don't know much about compilation...

[thisisnic]

*** Unable to retrieve libarrow for version 25.0.0.9000 (windows-x86_64)

Thanks, that's helpful! It looks like there's an issue with our nightly C++ builds, so actually while we're fixing that then we can probably only easily build on CI so that's fine for now. This is super useful to know though, will have a look at getting it fixed.

Once it is fixed, I think that setting the ARROW_R_DEV environment variable to TRUE will enabled you to use the nightly builds easily: Sys.setenv(ARROW_R_DEV = "true")

[olivroy]

Oh, this is great! Thanks for investigating and finding a fix! This will be useful in the future.

Hopefully, I got everything corrected this time