diff --git a/builder/Dockerfile.ubuntu-1804 b/builder/Dockerfile.ubuntu-1804
index 67a271b..df5f3ec 100644
--- a/builder/Dockerfile.ubuntu-1804
+++ b/builder/Dockerfile.ubuntu-1804
@@ -6,15 +6,18 @@ RUN set -x \
   && sed -i "s|# deb-src|deb-src|g" /etc/apt/sources.list \
   && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
   && apt-get update \
-  && apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev libopenblas-base wget python-pip \
+  && apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev libopenblas-base wget python-pip ruby ruby-dev \
   && apt-get build-dep -y r-base
 
 RUN pip install awscli
 
+RUN gem install fpm
+
 RUN chmod 0777 /opt
 
 # Override the default pager used by R
 ENV PAGER /usr/bin/pager
 
+COPY package.ubuntu-1804 /package.sh
 COPY build.sh .
 ENTRYPOINT ./build.sh
diff --git a/builder/build.sh b/builder/build.sh
index 123d6e5..56d1754 100755
--- a/builder/build.sh
+++ b/builder/build.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ upload_r() {
   if [ -n "$S3_BUCKET" ] && [ "$S3_BUCKET" != "" ]; then
     echo "Storing artifact on s3: ${S3_BUCKET}, tarball: ${TARBALL_NAME}"
     aws s3 cp /tmp/${TARBALL_NAME} s3://${S3_BUCKET}/${S3_BUCKET_PREFIX}${baseName}/${TARBALL_NAME}
+    # check if PKG_FILE has been set by a packager script and act accordingly
+    if [ -n "$PKG_FILE" ] && [ "$PKG_FILE" != "" ]; then
+      if [ -f "$PKG_FILE" ]; then
+	aws s3 cp ${PKG_FILE} s3://${S3_BUCKET}/${S3_BUCKET_PREFIX}${baseName}/pkgs/$(basename ${PKG_FILE})
+      fi
+    fi
   fi
   if [ -n "$LOCAL_STORE" ] && [ "$LOCAL_STORE" != '' ]; then
     echo "Storing artifact locally: ${LOCAL_STORE}, tarball: ${TARBALL_NAME}"
@@ -89,6 +95,16 @@ compile_r() {
   make install
 }
 
+# check for packager script
+## If it exists this build is ready for packaging with fpm, so run the script
+## else do nothing
+package_r() {
+  if [[ -f /package.sh ]]; then
+    export R_VERSION=${1}
+    source /package.sh
+  fi
+}
+
 set_up_environment() {
   mkdir -p /opt/R
 }
@@ -102,5 +118,6 @@ set_up_environment
 fetch_r_source $R_VERSION
 compile_r $R_VERSION
 clean_r
+package_r $R_VERSION
 archive_r $R_VERSION
 upload_r $R_VERSION
diff --git a/builder/package.ubuntu-1804 b/builder/package.ubuntu-1804
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52d5028
--- /dev/null
+++ b/builder/package.ubuntu-1804
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+if [[ ! -d /tmp/output/ubuntu-1804 ]]; then
+  mkdir -p /tmp/output/ubuntu-1804
+fi
+
+fpm \
+  -s dir \
+  -t deb \
+  -v 1 \
+  -n R-${R_VERSION} \
+  --deb-priority "optional" \
+  --deb-field 'Bugs: https://github.com/rstudio/r-builds/issues' \
+  --url "http://www.r-project.org/" \
+  --description "GNU R statistical computation and graphics system" \
+  --maintainer "RStudio Inc https://github.com/rstudio/r-builds" \
+  --license "GPL-2" \
+  -p /tmp/output/ubuntu-1804/ \
+  -d g++ \
+  -d gcc \
+  -d gfortran \
+  -d libbz2-1.0 \
+  -d libc6 \
+  -d libcairo2 \
+  -d libcurl4 \
+  -d libglib2.0-0 \
+  -d libgomp1 \
+  -d libicu60 \
+  -d libjpeg8 \
+  -d liblzma5 \
+  -d libopenblas-dev \
+  -d libpango-1.0-0 \
+  -d libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
+  -d libpaper-utils \
+  -d libpcre3 \
+  -d libpng16-16 \
+  -d libreadline7 \
+  -d libtcl8.6 \
+  -d libtiff5 \
+  -d libtk8.6 \
+  -d libx11-6 \
+  -d libxt6 \
+  -d make \
+  -d ucf \
+  -d unzip \
+  -d xdg-utils \
+  -d zip \
+  -d zlib1g \
+  /opt/R/${R_VERSION}
+
+shopt -s extglob
+export PKG_FILE=$(ls /tmp/output/ubuntu-1804/[rR]-${R_VERSION}*.@(deb|rpm) | head -1)
+