Inaki Ucar has an interesting project:
Bringing R packages to Fedora (in fact, to any distro) is an Herculean task, especially considering the rate at which CRAN grows nowadays. So I am happy to announce the cran2copr project, which is an attempt to maintain binary RPM repos for most of CRAN (~15k packages as of Feb. 2020) in an automated way using Fedora Copr.
Click through for installation instructions if you’re using an RPM-based Linux distribution like Fedora or CentOS. H/T R-Bloggers.