Veja as instruções de instalação para os pacotes Debian no CRAN, seção Secure apt :
The Debian backports archives on CRAN are signed with the key of Johannes Ranke (CRAN Debian archive) with key fingerprint 6212 B7B7 931C 4BB1 6280 BA13 06F9 0DE5 381B A480. You can fetch and import this with
apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 6212B7B7931C4BB16280BA1306F90DE5381BA480