diff --git a/.github/workflows/r.yml b/.github/workflows/r.yml
index 4a9c605e3bc..4f706e3e5b1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/r.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/r.yml
@@ -327,6 +327,14 @@ jobs:
         shell: Rscript {0}
         working-directory: r
         run: |
+          Sys.setenv(
+            RWINLIB_LOCAL = file.path(Sys.getenv("GITHUB_WORKSPACE"), "r", "windows", "libarrow.zip"),
+            MAKEFLAGS = paste0("-j", parallel::detectCores()),
+            ARROW_R_DEV = TRUE,
+            "_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_" = FALSE
+          )
+          # we use pak for package installation since it is faster, safer and more convenient
+          pak::local_install()
           pak::pak("lintr")
           lintr::expect_lint_free()
       - name: Dump install logs
diff --git a/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-glimpse.R b/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-glimpse.R
index 9deb9087b17..c93273bdeef 100644
--- a/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-glimpse.R
+++ b/r/tests/testthat/test-dplyr-glimpse.R
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # The glimpse output for tests with `example_data` is different on R < 3.6
 # because the `lgl` column is generated with `sample()` and the RNG
-# algorithm is different in older R versions. 
+# algorithm is different in older R versions.
 skip_on_r_older_than("3.6")
 
 library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)