diff --git a/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/roles/r/tasks/main.yml b/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/roles/r/tasks/main.yml
index e00dba3891..54285d8ae8 100644
--- a/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/roles/r/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/roles/r/tasks/main.yml
@@ -61,4 +61,5 @@
     - mplot
     - htmltools
     - base64enc
+    - data.table
 
diff --git a/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/show-instructions.sh b/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/show-instructions.sh
index 43bba76824..16a399d31f 100644
--- a/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/show-instructions.sh
+++ b/scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/show-instructions.sh
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ echo
 echo 'cd /vagrant/incubator-zeppelin'
 echo 'mvn clean package -DskipTests'
 echo
-echo '# or for a specific build'
+echo '# or for a specific Spark/Hadoop build with additional options such as python and R support'
 echo
-echo 'mvn clean package -Pspark-1.5 -Ppyspark -Dhadoop.version=2.2.0 -Phadoop-2.2 -DskipTests'
+echo 'mvn clean package -Pspark-1.6 -Ppyspark -Phadoop-2.4 -Psparkr -DskipTests'
 echo './bin/zeppelin-daemon.sh start'
 echo
 echo 'On your host machine browse to http://localhost:8080/'