diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 552b71215cb92..e0f97a4ca51cb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Apache Spark
 
 Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. It provides
-high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that
+high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R (Deprecated), and an optimized engine that
 supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a
 rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames,
 pandas API on Spark for pandas workloads, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing,
diff --git a/dev/make-distribution.sh b/dev/make-distribution.sh
index 081e6a1b97116..0fe4d95a24802 100755
--- a/dev/make-distribution.sh
+++ b/dev/make-distribution.sh
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ function exit_with_usage {
   cl_options="[--name] [--tgz] [--pip] [--r] [--connect] [--mvn <mvn-command>]"
   echo "make-distribution.sh $cl_options <maven build options>"
   echo "See Spark's \"Building Spark\" doc for correct Maven options."
+  echo "SparkR is deprecated from Apache Spark 4.0.0 and will be removed in a future version."
   echo ""
   exit 1
 }