diff --git a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
index 8195767c8d..9bdcc44baf 100644
--- a/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/apis/r/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Title: TileDB SOMA
 Description: Interface for working with 'TileDB'-based Stack of Matrices,
     Annotated ('SOMA'): an open data model for representing annotated matrices,
     like those commonly used for single cell data analysis.
-Version: 1.4.0
+Version: 0.99.2
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Aaron",
            family = "Wolen",
diff --git a/apis/r/NEWS.md b/apis/r/NEWS.md
index a11f2e7fb0..832ae4b38f 100644
--- a/apis/r/NEWS.md
+++ b/apis/r/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# tiledbsoma 1.4.*
+# tiledbsoma 0.0.0.*
 
 ## Changes