diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index 4a3707404bccf..3117872e21680 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ jobs:
       image_docs_url_link: ${{ steps.infra-image-link.outputs.image_docs_url_link }}
       image_lint_url: ${{ steps.infra-image-lint-outputs.outputs.image_lint_url }}
       image_lint_url_link: ${{ steps.infra-image-link.outputs.image_lint_url_link }}
+      image_sparkr_url: ${{ steps.infra-image-sparkr-outputs.outputs.image_sparkr_url }}
+      image_sparkr_url_link: ${{ steps.infra-image-link.outputs.image_sparkr_url_link }}
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Spark repository
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -154,6 +156,14 @@ jobs:
         IMG_NAME="apache-spark-ci-image-lint:${{ inputs.branch }}-${{ github.run_id }}"
         IMG_URL="ghcr.io/$REPO_OWNER/$IMG_NAME"
         echo "image_lint_url=$IMG_URL" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+    - name: Generate infra image URL (SparkR)
+      id: infra-image-sparkr-outputs
+      run: |
+        # Convert to lowercase to meet Docker repo name requirement
+        REPO_OWNER=$(echo "${{ github.repository_owner }}" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+        IMG_NAME="apache-spark-ci-image-sparkr:${{ inputs.branch }}-${{ github.run_id }}"
+        IMG_URL="ghcr.io/$REPO_OWNER/$IMG_NAME"
+        echo "image_sparkr_url=$IMG_URL" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
     - name: Link the docker images
       id: infra-image-link
       run: |
@@ -162,9 +172,11 @@ jobs:
         if [[ "${{ inputs.branch }}" == 'branch-3.5' ]]; then
           echo "image_docs_url_link=${{ steps.infra-image-outputs.outputs.image_url }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "image_lint_url_link=${{ steps.infra-image-outputs.outputs.image_url }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "image_sparkr_url_link=${{ steps.infra-image-outputs.outputs.image_url }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
         else
           echo "image_docs_url_link=${{ steps.infra-image-docs-outputs.outputs.image_docs_url }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "image_lint_url_link=${{ steps.infra-image-lint-outputs.outputs.image_lint_url }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "image_sparkr_url_link=${{ steps.infra-image-sparkr-outputs.outputs.image_sparkr_url }}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
         fi
 
   # Build: build Spark and run the tests for specified modules.
@@ -405,6 +417,17 @@ jobs:
             ${{ needs.precondition.outputs.image_lint_url }}
           # Use the infra image cache to speed up
           cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-lint-cache:${{ inputs.branch }}
+      - name: Build and push (SparkR)
+        if: hashFiles('dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile') != ''
+        id: docker_build_sparkr
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
+        with:
+          context: ./dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/
+          push: true
+          tags: |
+            ${{ needs.precondition.outputs.image_sparkr_url }}
+          # Use the infra image cache to speed up
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-sparkr-cache:${{ inputs.branch }}
 
 
   pyspark:
@@ -564,7 +587,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 180
     container:
-      image: ${{ needs.precondition.outputs.image_url }}
+      image: ${{ needs.precondition.outputs.image_sparkr_url_link }}
     env:
       HADOOP_PROFILE: ${{ inputs.hadoop }}
       HIVE_PROFILE: hive2.3
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_infra_images_cache.yml b/.github/workflows/build_infra_images_cache.yml
index b82d0633b0cee..a6beacedeebd4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_infra_images_cache.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_infra_images_cache.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ on:
     - 'dev/infra/Dockerfile'
     - 'dev/spark-test-image/docs/Dockerfile'
     - 'dev/spark-test-image/lint/Dockerfile'
+    - 'dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile'
     - '.github/workflows/build_infra_images_cache.yml'
   # Create infra image when cutting down branches/tags
   create:
@@ -88,3 +89,16 @@ jobs:
       - name: Image digest (Linter)
         if: hashFiles('dev/spark-test-image/lint/Dockerfile') != ''
         run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build_lint.outputs.digest }}
+      - name: Build and push (SparkR)
+        if: hashFiles('dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile') != ''
+        id: docker_build_sparkr
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
+        with:
+          context: ./dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/
+          push: true
+          tags: ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-sparkr-cache:${{ github.ref_name }}-static
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-sparkr-cache:${{ github.ref_name }}
+          cache-to: type=registry,ref=ghcr.io/apache/spark/apache-spark-github-action-image-sparkr-cache:${{ github.ref_name }},mode=max
+      - name: Image digest (SparkR)
+        if: hashFiles('dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile') != ''
+        run: echo ${{ steps.docker_build_sparkr.outputs.digest }}
diff --git a/dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile b/dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..43260c714a550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/spark-test-image/sparkr/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+# Image for building and testing Spark branches. Based on Ubuntu 22.04.
+# See also in https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu
+FROM ubuntu:jammy-20240911.1
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="Apache Spark project <dev@spark.apache.org>"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="Apache Spark Infra Image for SparkR"
+# Overwrite this label to avoid exposing the underlying Ubuntu OS version label
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.version=""
+
+ENV FULL_REFRESH_DATE 20241114
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN true
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential \
+    ca-certificates \
+    curl \
+    gfortran \
+    git \
+    gnupg \
+    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+    libfontconfig1-dev \
+    libfreetype6-dev \
+    libfribidi-dev \
+    libgit2-dev \
+    libharfbuzz-dev \
+    libjpeg-dev \
+    liblapack-dev \
+    libopenblas-dev \
+    libpng-dev \
+    libpython3-dev \
+    libssl-dev \
+    libtiff5-dev \
+    libxml2-dev \
+    pandoc \
+    pkg-config \
+    qpdf \
+    r-base \
+    software-properties-common \
+    wget \
+    zlib1g-dev \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN echo 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jammy-cran40/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
+RUN gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
+RUN gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | apt-key add -
+RUN add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu jammy-cran40/'
+
+# See more in SPARK-39959, roxygen2 < 7.2.1
+RUN Rscript -e "install.packages(c('devtools', 'knitr', 'markdown',  \
+    'rmarkdown', 'testthat', 'devtools', 'e1071', 'survival', 'arrow',  \
+    'ggplot2', 'mvtnorm', 'statmod', 'xml2'), 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('lintr', version='2.0.1', 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-39735
+ENV R_LIBS_SITE "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:${R_LIBS_SITE}:/usr/lib/R/library"