diff --git a/R-package/vignettes/xgboostPresentation.Rmd b/R-package/vignettes/xgboostPresentation.Rmd
index 0bab9a1f4..b7648340d 100644
--- a/R-package/vignettes/xgboostPresentation.Rmd
+++ b/R-package/vignettes/xgboostPresentation.Rmd
@@ -57,11 +57,9 @@ devtools::install_github('dmlc/xgboost', subdir='R-package')
 Cran version
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-For stable version on *CRAN*, run:
+As of 2015-03-13, ‘xgboost’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
 
-```{r installCran, eval=FALSE}
-install.packages('xgboost')
-```
+Formerly available versions can be obtained from the CRAN [archive](http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/xgboost)
 
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