diff --git a/r/configure.win b/r/configure.win
index d645834fac84f..f31bf8f9cf494 100644
--- a/r/configure.win
+++ b/r/configure.win
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ AWS_LIBS="-laws-cpp-sdk-config -laws-cpp-sdk-transfer -laws-cpp-sdk-identity-man
 # NOTE: If you make changes to the libraries below, you should also change
 # ci/scripts/r_windows_build.sh and ci/scripts/PKGBUILD
 PKG_CFLAGS="-I${RWINLIB}/include -DARROW_STATIC -DPARQUET_STATIC -DARROW_DS_STATIC -DARROW_R_WITH_ARROW -DARROW_R_WITH_PARQUET -DARROW_R_WITH_DATASET"
-PKG_LIBS="-L${RWINLIB}/lib"'$(subst gcc,,$(COMPILED_BY))$(R_ARCH) '"-L${RWINLIB}/lib"'$(R_ARCH) '"-lparquet -larrow_dataset -larrow -larrow_bundled_dependencies -lutf8proc -lthrift -lsnappy -lz -lzstd -llz4 ${MIMALLOC_LIBS} ${OPENSSL_LIBS}"
+PKG_LIBS="-L${RWINLIB}/lib"'$(subst gcc,,$(COMPILED_BY))$(R_ARCH) '"-L${RWINLIB}/lib"'$(R_ARCH)$(CRT) '"-lparquet -larrow_dataset -larrow -larrow_bundled_dependencies -lutf8proc -lthrift -lsnappy -lz -lzstd -llz4 ${MIMALLOC_LIBS} ${OPENSSL_LIBS}"
 
 # S3 and re2 support only for Rtools40 (i.e. R >= 4.0)
 "${R_HOME}/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript.exe" -e 'R.version$major >= 4' | grep TRUE >/dev/null 2>&1
diff --git a/r/src/Makevars.ucrt b/r/src/Makevars.ucrt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..52488eb2b858e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/r/src/Makevars.ucrt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# 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.
+
+CRT=-ucrt
+include Makevars.win