diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91114bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+^.*\.Rproj$
+^\.Rproj\.user$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..807ea25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
diff --git a/pack.Rproj b/pack.Rproj
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/pack.Rproj
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+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+
+AutoAppendNewline: Yes
+StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes
+
+BuildType: Package
+PackageUseDevtools: Yes
+PackageInstallArgs: --no-multiarch --with-keep.source