how to use apache arrow in R on NixOS

arrow-shell.nix

let  
  old-arrow-cpp = import (
    builtins.fetchTarball {
      name = "old-arrow-cpp";
      url = https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/archive/cdbf3f78bfd1f88259116f6f7cbcc6c5df0a9687.tar.gz;
      # Hash obtained using `nix-prefetch-url --unpack <url>`
      sha256 = "1j0lrjcqfp5pp54ls3wc054yyi4s6wpabs00d7sy9640fdrh8bd4";
    }
  ) {};
  arrow-cpp-overlay = self: super: {
    inherit (old-arrow-cpp) arrow-cpp;
  };
  pkgs =
    import <nixpkgs>
      {
        overlays = [
          arrow-cpp-overlay
        ];
      };
  my-R-packages = with pkgs; with rPackages; [
    devtools
    arrow
  ];
  R-with-my-packages = with pkgs; rWrapper.override{ packages = with rPackages; my-R-packages; };
in
pkgs.mkShell {
  buildInputs = [ pkgs.arrow-cpp my-R-packages ];
  name = "arrow-shell";
  
  # See https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/articles/install.html#how-dependencies-are-resolved
  shellHook = ''
    export LIBARROW_BINARY=${pkgs.arrow-cpp}/lib
    export ARROW_USE_PKG_CONFIG=TRUE
    export LIBARROW_DOWNLOAD=FALSE
    export LIBARROW_BUILD=FALSE
  '';
}