diff --git a/r/vignettes/developers/setup.Rmd b/r/vignettes/developers/setup.Rmd
index 4c1eab1e697..c0748868268 100644
--- a/r/vignettes/developers/setup.Rmd
+++ b/r/vignettes/developers/setup.Rmd
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ checkout:
 ```{bash, save=run}
 popd # To go back to the root directory of the project, from cpp/build
 pushd r
-R -e "install.packages('remotes'); remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)"
+R -e 'install.packages("remotes", repos="https://cloud.r-project.org"); remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)'
 R CMD INSTALL --no-multiarch .
 ```