diff --git a/R/install-dev.bat b/R/install-dev.bat
index f32670b67de96e7a086186fb5dde61530dabaf93..008a5c668bc453498d3016688d9b98de1c6a1848 100644
--- a/R/install-dev.bat
+++ b/R/install-dev.bat
@@ -25,8 +25,3 @@ set SPARK_HOME=%~dp0..
 MKDIR %SPARK_HOME%\R\lib
 
 R.exe CMD INSTALL --library="%SPARK_HOME%\R\lib"  %SPARK_HOME%\R\pkg\
-
-rem Zip the SparkR package so that it can be distributed to worker nodes on YARN
-pushd %SPARK_HOME%\R\lib
-%JAVA_HOME%\bin\jar.exe cfM "%SPARK_HOME%\R\lib\sparkr.zip" SparkR
-popd
diff --git a/make-distribution.sh b/make-distribution.sh
index 4789b0e09cc8a1ca3856028fc887e29ccc3c3b02..247a81341e4a434b780dc8a151dd306dd789159f 100755
--- a/make-distribution.sh
+++ b/make-distribution.sh
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ cp -r "$SPARK_HOME/ec2" "$DISTDIR"
 if [ -d "$SPARK_HOME"/R/lib/SparkR ]; then
   mkdir -p "$DISTDIR"/R/lib
   cp -r "$SPARK_HOME/R/lib/SparkR" "$DISTDIR"/R/lib
-  cp "$SPARK_HOME/R/lib/sparkr.zip" "$DISTDIR"/R/lib
 fi
 
 # Download and copy in tachyon, if requested