[R] Better handling for missing compression codecs on Linux

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Could this be the source of errors like Error: NotImplemented: Support for codec 'lz4' not built after installing from CRAN?

A few more details:

The default behavior (when neither LIBARROW_BINARY=true nor NOT_CRAN=true) is to build the arrow c++ libraries from source. And the default for building from source does not include all of the optional features and compression libraries (unless one sets LIBARROW_MINIMAL=false).

Could we improve the error messaging that suggest either setting the right environment variable to install binaries (and then reinstall) or setting LIBARROW_MINIMAL=false (and then reinstall), possibly with a link to https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html to help people see other possible ways to resolve the installation issue.

Reporter: Jonathan Keane / @jonkeane
Assignee: Mauricio 'Pachá' Vargas Sepúlveda / @pachadotdev

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #9743
• GitHub Pull Request #9880
• GitHub Pull Request #9893

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-11766. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
This particular error about compression codecs is in practice probably only going to come from read_feather and read_parquet, so we can wrap the line that would throw that message in a tryCatch and if grepl("Support for codec", conditionMessage(e)) raise an error with a more helpful message.

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Issue resolved by pull request 9893
#9893