  In this paper we establish \textit{formulae} for the inflationary slow-roll
parameters $\epsilon$, $\eta$ and $\zeta$ as functions of the Ricci scalar $R$
for $f(R)$ theories of gravity. As examples, we present the analytic and
numerical solutions of $\epsilon$, $\eta$ and $\zeta$ as functions of the
number of e-folds $N$ in two important instances: for the Starobinsky model and
for a $f(R)$ reconstruction of the $\alpha$-Attractors. The highlight of our
proposal is to rewrite the slow-roll parameters in terms of $f(R)$, which
allows to find directly $n_{\rm s}$, $r$, $\alpha_{\rm s}$ and
$f^{\text{equil}}_{\text{NL}}$ as functions of $R$ itself. We obtain that both
models indicate a small contribution to the non-Gaussianity parameters, which
are in good agreement with current observational constraints.
