diff --git a/R/pkg/DESCRIPTION b/R/pkg/DESCRIPTION
index c5c08bd7a063..2047f0d75ca1 100644
--- a/R/pkg/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/R/pkg/DESCRIPTION
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Suggests:
     testthat,
     e1071,
     survival,
-    arrow (>= 0.15.1)
+    arrow (>= 1.0.0)
 Collate:
     'schema.R'
     'generics.R'
diff --git a/docs/sparkr.md b/docs/sparkr.md
index d86fa86c8985..fa1bb1b85181 100644
--- a/docs/sparkr.md
+++ b/docs/sparkr.md
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Rscript -e 'install.packages("arrow", repos="https://cloud.r-project.org/")'
 Please refer [the official documentation of Apache Arrow](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/r/) for more detials.
 
 Note that you must ensure that Arrow R package is installed and available on all cluster nodes.
-The current supported minimum version is 0.15.1; however, this might change between the minor releases since Arrow optimization in SparkR is experimental.
+The current supported minimum version is 1.0.0; however, this might change between the minor releases since Arrow optimization in SparkR is experimental.
 
 ## Enabling for Conversion to/from R DataFrame, `dapply` and `gapply`