[SPARK-56500][R] Replace devtools to remotes in SparkR

### What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Replaces `devtools` to `remotes` which is lighter.
It does not fix CRAN related because we don't release on CRAN anymore.

### Why are the changes needed?

- A lot of usages of `devtools` in our repo is actually deprecated.
- Causes many issues like #55216 #55233 #55245
- It fails again because it requires another dependency.

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?

No, dev-only.

### How was this patch tested?

Will minotior the CI.

### Was this patch authored or co-authored using generative AI tooling?

No.

Closes #55362 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-56500.

Authored-by: Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls223@apache.org>
Signed-off-by: Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls223@apache.org>

Author: HyukjinKwon

.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml

@@ -1000,8 +1000,8 @@ jobs:
         apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libgit2-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev \
           libfontconfig1-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev \
           libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev
-        Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
-        Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+        Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
+        Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
     - name: Install R linter dependencies and SparkR
       run: ./R/install-dev.sh
     - name: R linter
@@ -1116,9 +1116,9 @@ jobs:
         apt-get update -y
         apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev pandoc
         apt-get install -y ruby ruby-dev
-        Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'testthat', 'knitr', 'rmarkdown', 'markdown', 'e1071', 'roxygen2', 'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
-        Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
-        Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+        Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'testthat', 'knitr', 'rmarkdown', 'markdown', 'e1071', 'roxygen2', 'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')"
+        Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+        Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
         # Should unpin 'sphinxcontrib-*' after upgrading sphinx>5
         python3.9 -m pip install 'sphinx==4.5.0' mkdocs 'pydata_sphinx_theme>=0.13' sphinx-copybutton nbsphinx numpydoc jinja2 markupsafe 'pyzmq<24.0.0' 'sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.4' 'sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2' 'sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.1' 'sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3' 'sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5'
         python3.9 -m pip install ipython_genutils # See SPARK-38517

R/DOCUMENTATION.md

@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ SparkR documentation is generated by using in-source comments and annotated by u
 [`roxygen2`](https://cran.r-project.org/package=roxygen2). After making changes to the documentation and generating man pages,
 you can run the following from an R console in the SparkR home directory
 ```R
-library(devtools)
-devtools::document(pkg="./pkg", roclets=c("rd"))
+roxygen2::roxygenize(package.dir="./pkg", roclets=c("rd"))
 ```
 You can verify if your changes are good by running
 

R/create-docs.sh

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #
 
 # Script to create API docs and vignettes for SparkR
-# This requires `devtools`, `knitr` and `rmarkdown` to be installed on the machine.
+# This requires `roxygen2`, `knitr`, `rmarkdown`, and `pkgdown` to be installed on the machine.
 
 # After running this script the html docs can be found in
 # $SPARK_HOME/R/pkg/html

R/create-rd.sh

@@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ FWDIR="$(cd "`dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`"; pwd)"
 pushd "$FWDIR" > /dev/null
 . "$FWDIR/find-r.sh"
 
-# Generate Rd files if devtools is installed
-"$R_SCRIPT_PATH/Rscript" -e ' if(requireNamespace("devtools", quietly=TRUE)) { setwd("'$FWDIR'"); devtools::document(pkg="./pkg", roclets="rd") }'
+# Generate Rd files if roxygen2 is installed
+"$R_SCRIPT_PATH/Rscript" -e ' if(requireNamespace("roxygen2", quietly=TRUE)) { setwd("'$FWDIR'"); roxygen2::roxygenize(package.dir="./pkg", roclets=c("rd")) }'

R/pkg/README.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Once you have made your changes, please include unit tests for them and run exis
 
 #### Generating documentation
 
-The SparkR documentation (Rd files and HTML files) are not a part of the source repository. To generate them you can run the script `R/create-docs.sh`. This script uses `devtools` and `knitr` to generate the docs and these packages need to be installed on the machine before using the script. Also, you may need to install these [prerequisites](https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/docs#prerequisites). See also, `R/DOCUMENTATION.md`
+The SparkR documentation (Rd files and HTML files) are not a part of the source repository. To generate them you can run the script `R/create-docs.sh`. This script uses `roxygen2`, `knitr`, and `rmarkdown` to generate the docs and these packages need to be installed on the machine before using the script. Also, you may need to install these [prerequisites](https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/docs#prerequisites). See also, `R/DOCUMENTATION.md`
 
 ### Examples, Unit tests
 

dev/create-release/spark-rm/Dockerfile.base

@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ RUN echo 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jammy-cran40/' >> /et
 
 # Install R packages (same versions across all branches)
 # See more in SPARK-39959, roxygen2 < 7.2.1
-RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'remotes', 'knitr', 'markdown', \
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'knitr', 'markdown', \
     'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow', \
     'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod', 'xml2'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
 
 # See more in SPARK-39735
 ENV R_LIBS_SITE="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"

dev/infra/Dockerfile

@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ RUN gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | apt-key add -
 RUN add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jammy-cran40/'
 
 # See more in SPARK-39959, roxygen2 < 7.2.1
-RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown',  \
-    'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'devtools', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow',  \
-    'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod', 'xml2', 'remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'knitr', 'markdown',  \
+    'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow',  \
+    'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod', 'xml2'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
 
 # See more in SPARK-39735
 ENV R_LIBS_SITE="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"

dev/spark-test-image/docs/Dockerfile

@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # See more in SPARK-39959, roxygen2 < 7.2.1
-RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'knitr', 'markdown', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
 
 # See more in SPARK-39735
 ENV R_LIBS_SITE="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"

dev/spark-test-image/lint/Dockerfile

@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" \
-    && Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" \
-    && Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" \
-    && Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'knitr', 'markdown', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" \
+    && Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" \
+    && Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" \
+    && Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
 
 # See more in SPARK-39735
 ENV R_LIBS_SITE="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"

dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile

@@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ RUN gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | apt-key add -
 RUN add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jammy-cran40/'
 
 # See more in SPARK-39959, roxygen2 < 7.2.1
-RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown',  \
-    'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'devtools', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow',  \
-    'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod', 'xml2', 'remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('remotes', 'knitr', 'markdown',  \
+    'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow',  \
+    'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod', 'xml2'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('lintr', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
+    Rscript -e "remotes::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
 
 # See more in SPARK-39735
 ENV R_LIBS_SITE="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"