diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index fa02e1c8e34..d48cb3c18ca 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ repos:
           ?^ci/scripts/python_wheel_macos_build\.sh$|
           ?^ci/scripts/python_wheel_xlinux_build\.sh$|
           ?^ci/scripts/r_build\.sh$|
+          ?^ci/scripts/r_deps\.sh$|
           ?^ci/scripts/r_revdepcheck\.sh$|
           ?^ci/scripts/release_test\.sh$|
           ?^ci/scripts/ruby_test\.sh$|
diff --git a/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh b/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh
index 2b432f768c2..94f72ce78e6 100755
--- a/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/r_deps.sh
@@ -18,21 +18,21 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-: ${R_BIN:=R}
+: "${R_BIN:=R}"
 
-: ${R_PRUNE_DEPS:=FALSE}
-R_PRUNE_DEPS=`echo $R_PRUNE_DEPS | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
+: "${R_PRUNE_DEPS:=FALSE}"
+R_PRUNE_DEPS=$(echo "$R_PRUNE_DEPS" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
 
-: ${R_DUCKDB_DEV:=FALSE}
-R_DUCKDB_DEV=`echo $R_DUCKDB_DEV | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
+: "${R_DUCKDB_DEV:=FALSE}"
+R_DUCKDB_DEV=$(echo "$R_DUCKDB_DEV" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
 
-source_dir=${1}/r
+source_dir="${1}/r"
 
-pushd ${source_dir}
+pushd "${source_dir}"
 
-if [ ${R_PRUNE_DEPS} = "true" ]; then
+if [ "${R_PRUNE_DEPS}" = "true" ]; then
   # To prevent the build from timing out, let's prune some optional deps (and their possible version requirements)
-  ${R_BIN} -e 'd <- read.dcf("DESCRIPTION")
+  "${R_BIN}" -e 'd <- read.dcf("DESCRIPTION")
   to_prune <- c("duckdb", "DBI", "dbplyr", "decor", "knitr", "rmarkdown", "pkgload", "reticulate")
   pattern <- paste0("\\n?", to_prune, " (\\\\(.*\\\\))?,?", collapse = "|")
   d[,"Suggests"] <- gsub(pattern, "", d[,"Suggests"])
@@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ fi
 # install.packages() emits warnings if packages fail to install,
 # but we want to error/fail the build.
 # options(warn=2) turns warnings into errors
-${R_BIN} -e "options(warn=2); install.packages('remotes'); remotes::install_cran(c('glue', 'rcmdcheck', 'sys')); remotes::install_deps(INSTALL_opts = '"${INSTALL_ARGS}"')"
+"${R_BIN}" -e "options(warn=2); install.packages('remotes'); remotes::install_cran(c('glue', 'rcmdcheck', 'sys')); remotes::install_deps(INSTALL_opts = '${INSTALL_ARGS}')"
 
 # Install DuckDB from github when requested
-if [ ${R_DUCKDB_DEV} == "true" ]; then
-  ${R_BIN} -e "remotes::install_github('duckdb/duckdb-r', build = FALSE)"
+if [ "${R_DUCKDB_DEV}" == "true" ]; then
+  "${R_BIN}" -e "remotes::install_github('duckdb/duckdb-r', build = FALSE)"
 fi
 
 # Separately install the optional/test dependencies but don't error on them,
 # they're not available everywhere and that's ok
-${R_BIN} -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE, INSTALL_opts = '"${INSTALL_ARGS}"')"
+"${R_BIN}" -e "remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE, INSTALL_opts = '${INSTALL_ARGS}')"
 
 popd