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 STYLE.md
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 ^.styler_excludes.R
+^cheatsheet$
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@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ Other applications of `arrow` are described in the following vignettes:
 -   `vignette("arrow", package = "arrow")`: access and manipulate Arrow
     objects through low-level bindings to the C++ library
 
+The Arrow for R [cheatsheet](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/-/r/cheatsheet/arrow.pdf) and [Cookbook](https://arrow.apache.org/cookbook/r/index.html) are additional resources for getting started with `arrow`.
+
 ## Getting help
 
 If you encounter a bug, please file an issue with a minimal reproducible
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+<!---
+  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.
+-->
+
+### arrow-cheatsheet
+
+* The `powerpoint/arrow-cheatsheet.pptx` file was built in and exported from Google Slides
+* The arrow cheatsheet leverages some design elements from the official [RStudio cheatsheet template](https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets) ([CC-BY-4.0](https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/LICENSE))
+* The official Apache Arrow hex sticker is sourced from <https://arrow.apache.org/visual_identity/>
+* To suggest changes or update the cheatsheet, please download and edit the `arrow-cheatsheet.pptx` file, and provide the revised `.pptx` and rendered PDF via a Pull Request to the repository (see [Pull request and review guidelines for help](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/developers/contributing.html))
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