[R] building a copy of R with certain packages in Linux

[Edna Bell]

Dear R Gurus:

I would like to have a version of R with certain packages only to be
put together in Linux.

Does something like that exist, please?

I'm thinking it might be a sort of
R CMD build

but I don't know how to proceed.

Thanks for any help.

Sincerely,
Edna Bell