What are the R - families of connections

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I've the definition of a connection on a vector bundle and on a G-principal bundle. But reading I have found this statement

if R is a $\mathbb{C}-$algebra take the R-families of connections over the formal disk

Where the formal disk is $Spec\mathbb{C}[[t]]$ What they mean? There is another classical definitions that I've lost?