diff --git a/r/sedonadb/.Rbuildignore b/r/sedonadb/.Rbuildignore
index 7e7df631..d18da406 100644
--- a/r/sedonadb/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/r/sedonadb/.Rbuildignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 ^compile_commands\.json$
 ^\.vscode$
 ^README\.Rmd$
+^bootstrap\.R$
diff --git a/r/sedonadb/DESCRIPTION b/r/sedonadb/DESCRIPTION
index 51673914..f550038b 100644
--- a/r/sedonadb/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/r/sedonadb/DESCRIPTION
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Suggests:
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
     withr,
     wk
-Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Imports:
     geoarrow,
     nanoarrow
+Config/testthat/edition: 3
+Config/build/bootstrap: TRUE
diff --git a/r/sedonadb/README.Rmd b/r/sedonadb/README.Rmd
index 5b9a784d..bf18f8b5 100644
--- a/r/sedonadb/README.Rmd
+++ b/r/sedonadb/README.Rmd
@@ -42,10 +42,8 @@ The goal of sedonadb is to provide an R interface to [Apache SedonaDB](https://s
 
 You can install the development version of sedonadb from [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:
 
-``` shell
-git clone https://github.com/apache/sedona-db.git
-cd sedona-db/r/sedonadb
-R CMD INSTALL .
+``` r
+pak::pkg_install("apache/sedona-db/r/sedonadb")
 ```
 
 Installing a development version of sedonadb requires a [Rust compiler](https://rustup.rs) and a GEOS system dependency (e.g., `brew install geos` or `apt-get install libgeos-dev`). Install instructions for these dependencies on other platforms can be found on the [sf package homepage](https://r-spatial.github.io/sf).
diff --git a/r/sedonadb/README.md b/r/sedonadb/README.md
index 20bc812e..6f8dd822 100644
--- a/r/sedonadb/README.md
+++ b/r/sedonadb/README.md
@@ -33,10 +33,8 @@ SQL with high function coverage and GeoParquet IO.
 You can install the development version of sedonadb from
 [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:
 
-``` shell
-git clone https://github.com/apache/sedona-db.git
-cd sedona-db/r/sedonadb
-R CMD INSTALL .
+``` r
+pak::pkg_install("apache/sedona-db/r/sedonadb")
 ```
 
 Installing a development version of sedonadb requires a [Rust
diff --git a/r/sedonadb/bootstrap.R b/r/sedonadb/bootstrap.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e51c0d92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/r/sedonadb/bootstrap.R
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# R builds a package by copying only the sources under the directory of the R
+# package, which means it cannot refer to the Rust files above the directory.
+# So, this R script copies the necessary Rust crates under the R package dir.
+# Note that, this is not a standard mechanism of R, but is only invoked by
+# pkgbuild (cf. https://github.com/r-lib/pkgbuild/pull/157)
+
+# Tweak Cargo.toml
+cargo_toml <- "src/rust/Cargo.toml"
+lines <- readLines(cargo_toml)
+writeLines(
+  gsub("../../../../", "../", lines, fixed = TRUE),
+  cargo_toml
+)
+
+dir.create("src/dep_crates/")
+file.copy(
+  c(
+    "../../rust",
+    "../../c",
+    "../../Cargo.toml",
+    "../../Cargo.lock"
+  ),
+  "src/",
+  recursive = TRUE
+)
+
+# Tweak workspace Cargo.toml
+top_cargo_toml <- "src/Cargo.toml"
+lines <- readLines(top_cargo_toml)
+# change the path to the R package's Rust code
+lines <- gsub("r/sedonadb/src/rust", "rust", lines, fixed = TRUE)
+# remove unnecessary workspace members
+lines <- gsub('"python/sedonadb",', "", lines, fixed = TRUE)
+lines <- gsub('"sedona-cli",', "", lines, fixed = TRUE)
+writeLines(lines, top_cargo_toml)