diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 09f18ee..6ea77e5 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ cran-comments.md
 ^revdep$
 ^$
 ^cran-comments\.md$
+^DataPackageR\.Rproj$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ecbdb38..eb791f7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ doc
 .RData
 README.html
 preprocessData.Rproj
-DataPackageR.Rproj
 codecov.yml
 .travis.yml
 /revdep/.cache.rds
diff --git a/DataPackageR.Rproj b/DataPackageR.Rproj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..497f8bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/DataPackageR.Rproj
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+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