diff --git a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/pom.xml b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/pom.xml
index 7a889c427b41..2940c2e003b5 100644
--- a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@
 
                 <argument>--spark-tgz</argument>
                 <argument>${spark.kubernetes.test.sparkTgz}</argument>
+
+                <argument>--test-exclude-tags</argument>
+                <argument>"${test.exclude.tags}"</argument>
               </arguments>
             </configuration>
           </execution>
diff --git a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/scripts/setup-integration-test-env.sh b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/scripts/setup-integration-test-env.sh
index 2e72ff8e55bf..beda56cf37c9 100755
--- a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/scripts/setup-integration-test-env.sh
+++ b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/scripts/setup-integration-test-env.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ IMAGE_TAG="N/A"
 JAVA_IMAGE_TAG="8-jre-slim"
 SPARK_TGZ="N/A"
 MVN="$TEST_ROOT_DIR/build/mvn"
+EXCLUDE_TAGS=""
 
 # Parse arguments
 while (( "$#" )); do
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ while (( "$#" )); do
       SPARK_TGZ="$2"
       shift
       ;;
+    --test-exclude-tags)
+      EXCLUDE_TAGS="$2"
+      shift
+      ;;
     *)
       break
       ;;
@@ -99,7 +104,10 @@ then
   LANGUAGE_BINDING_BUILD_ARGS="-p $DOCKER_FILE_BASE_PATH/bindings/python/Dockerfile"
 
   # Build SparkR image
-  LANGUAGE_BINDING_BUILD_ARGS="$LANGUAGE_BINDING_BUILD_ARGS -R $DOCKER_FILE_BASE_PATH/bindings/R/Dockerfile"
+  tags=(${EXCLUDE_TAGS//,/ })
+  if [[ ! ${tags[@]} =~ "r" ]]; then
+    LANGUAGE_BINDING_BUILD_ARGS="$LANGUAGE_BINDING_BUILD_ARGS -R $DOCKER_FILE_BASE_PATH/bindings/R/Dockerfile"
+  fi
 
   # Unset SPARK_HOME to let the docker-image-tool script detect SPARK_HOME. Otherwise, it cannot
   # indicate the unpacked directory as its home. See SPARK-28550.
diff --git a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/KubernetesSuite.scala b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/KubernetesSuite.scala
index 4de7e70c1f40..65a2f1ff7969 100644
--- a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/KubernetesSuite.scala
+++ b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/KubernetesSuite.scala
@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ class KubernetesSuite extends SparkFunSuite
 
 private[spark] object KubernetesSuite {
   val k8sTestTag = Tag("k8s")
+  val rTestTag = Tag("r")
   val MinikubeTag = Tag("minikube")
   val SPARK_PI_MAIN_CLASS: String = "org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi"
   val SPARK_DFS_READ_WRITE_TEST = "org.apache.spark.examples.DFSReadWriteTest"
diff --git a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/RTestsSuite.scala b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/RTestsSuite.scala
index e81562a92322..b7c8886a15ae 100644
--- a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/RTestsSuite.scala
+++ b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/RTestsSuite.scala
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ package org.apache.spark.deploy.k8s.integrationtest
 private[spark] trait RTestsSuite { k8sSuite: KubernetesSuite =>
 
   import RTestsSuite._
-  import KubernetesSuite.k8sTestTag
+  import KubernetesSuite.{k8sTestTag, rTestTag}
 
-  test("Run SparkR on simple dataframe.R example", k8sTestTag) {
+  test("Run SparkR on simple dataframe.R example", k8sTestTag, rTestTag) {
     sparkAppConf.set("spark.kubernetes.container.image", rImage)
     runSparkApplicationAndVerifyCompletion(
       appResource = SPARK_R_DATAFRAME_TEST,