diff --git a/dev/spark-test-image/docs/Dockerfile b/dev/spark-test-image/docs/Dockerfile
index f3778a342eb5..bf64423e9270 100644
--- a/dev/spark-test-image/docs/Dockerfile
+++ b/dev/spark-test-image/docs/Dockerfile
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-# See more in SPARK-39959, roxygen2 < 7.2.1
-RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'remotes'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('roxygen2', version='7.2.0', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('pkgdown', version='2.0.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')" && \
-    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
+# See more in SPARK-39959 for why roxygen2 < 7.2.1
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown', 'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'remotes', 'pak'), repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')" && \
+    Rscript -e "pak::pak('roxygen2@7.2.0')" && \
+    Rscript -e "pak::pak('pkgdown@2.2.0')" && \
+    Rscript -e "devtools::install_version('preferably', version='0.4.1', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org')"
 
 # See more in SPARK-39735
 ENV R_LIBS_SITE="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"