diff --git a/r/R/dplyr-funcs-doc.R b/r/R/dplyr-funcs-doc.R
index bbcd3fe59f4c..524422993af2 100644
--- a/r/R/dplyr-funcs-doc.R
+++ b/r/R/dplyr-funcs-doc.R
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 #' Functions can be called either as `pkg::fun()` or just `fun()`, i.e. both
 #' `str_sub()` and `stringr::str_sub()` work.
 #'
-#' In addition to these functions, you can call any of Arrow's 283 compute
+#' In addition to these functions, you can call any of Arrow's 287 compute
 #' functions directly. Arrow has many functions that don't map to an existing R
 #' function. In other cases where there is an R function mapping, you can still
 #' call the Arrow function directly if you don't want the adaptations that the R
diff --git a/r/README.md b/r/README.md
index 595a6a798bae..7824088bbf97 100644
--- a/r/README.md
+++ b/r/README.md
@@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
 # arrow <img src="https://arrow.apache.org/img/arrow-logo_hex_black-txt_white-bg.png" align="right" alt="" width="120" />
 
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-[![R-universe status badge](https://apache.r-universe.dev/badges/arrow)](https://apache.r-universe.dev)
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 ## Overview
 
diff --git a/r/man/acero.Rd b/r/man/acero.Rd
index 45be81521e82..0dc7f624255b 100644
--- a/r/man/acero.Rd
+++ b/r/man/acero.Rd
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ can assume that the function works in Acero just as it does in R.
 Functions can be called either as \code{pkg::fun()} or just \code{fun()}, i.e. both
 \code{str_sub()} and \code{stringr::str_sub()} work.
 
-In addition to these functions, you can call any of Arrow's 283 compute
+In addition to these functions, you can call any of Arrow's 287 compute
 functions directly. Arrow has many functions that don't map to an existing R
 function. In other cases where there is an R function mapping, you can still
 call the Arrow function directly if you don't want the adaptations that the R