Can I build a rpm out of a R package

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Hello,
I use R everyday but my com[any is now requiring us to build rpms out of our in house developed R packages so we can deploy them.
was wondering if a good soul could help me have a example working or direct me to some tutorial or similar.
Any help very much welcomed
Thanks

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Out of curiosity, do you know why they ask that ?
In our company, packages are provided to user through repositories and it is the same for different technologies - we have mirror and internal for yum repo (linux centos), pip repo (python), npm repo (JS), maven repo (Java), cran repo (R).

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I am not sure really.
We are using artifactory as an artifact manager.
I imagine that keeping a unique format simplifies deployment but I hardly know anything about this.
However I have found out how to do what I wanted, I tested on my personal fedora 31 distro on a toy example mini.package


# install R2spec
sudo -s dnf install R2spec
# build the package
R --vanilla CMD build ./the_source_dir
# create rpm out of the package tar.gz
R2rpm --sources ${HOME}/CodeProjects/R/mini.package_0.0.0.9000.tar.gz --keep-sources --debug --force-spec
# install the rpm
sudo rpm -iv /home/statquant/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/R-mini.package-0.0.0.9000-1.fc31.noarch.rpm
# remove rpm

sudo dnf remove R-mini.package-0.0.0.9000-1.fc31.noarch

Heavy lifting if performed by the great utility r2spec
And specs are described https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:R#R2spec

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Do you know artifactory support R packages ?

And nice to know you succeeded in your task !

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