diff --git a/R/pkg/R/context.R b/R/pkg/R/context.R
index 7a8bffa1ccd43..438d77a388f0e 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/context.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/context.R
@@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ objectFile <- function(sc, path, minPartitions = NULL) {
 #' in the list are split into \code{numSlices} slices and distributed to nodes
 #' in the cluster.
 #'
-#' If size of serialized slices is larger than 2GB (or INT_MAX bytes), the function
-#' will write it to disk and send the file name to JVM.
+#' If size of serialized slices is larger than spark.r.maxAllocationLimit or (200MB), the function 
+#' will write it to disk and send the file name to JVM. Also to make sure each slice is not 
+#' larger than that limit, number of slices may be increased.
 #'
 #' @param sc SparkContext to use
 #' @param coll collection to parallelize