diff --git a/docs/sparkr.md b/docs/sparkr.md
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--- a/docs/sparkr.md
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@@ -666,10 +666,10 @@ Apache Arrow is an in-memory columnar data format that is used in Spark to effic
 Currently, Arrow R library is not on CRAN yet [ARROW-3204](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3204). Therefore, it should be installed directly from Github. You can use `remotes::install_github` as below.
 
 ```bash
-Rscript -e 'remotes::install_github("apache/arrow@TAG", subdir = "r")'
+Rscript -e 'remotes::install_github("apache/arrow@apache-arrow-0.12.1", subdir = "r")'
 ```
 
-`TAG` is a version tag that can be checked in [Arrow at Github](https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases). You must ensure that Arrow R package is installed and available on all cluster nodes. The current supported version is 0.12.1.
+`apache-arrow-0.12.1` is a version tag that can be checked in [Arrow at Github](https://github.com/apache/arrow/releases). You must ensure that Arrow R package is installed and available on all cluster nodes. The current supported version is 0.12.1.
 
 ## Enabling for Conversion to/from R DataFrame, `dapply` and `gapply`