Building R with patch proposed
cd $HOME
svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk R-devel
cd R-devel/src
cp ~/Downloads/growable-api.patch .
git apply growable-api.patch
rm growable-api.patch
cd ..
./configure --prefix=$HOME/R-devel --enable-R-shlib --without-recommended-packages --enable-memory-profiling
make -j$(nproc)