diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5637f9ce1..8e67e2399 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+.Rprofile
+libx/
+renv/
+
 # R data
 ######################
 .RData
@@ -37,4 +41,5 @@ firebase.rds
 test-firestore.R
 .httr-oauth
 bigomics-extra.js
-Renviron.site
\ No newline at end of file
+Renviron.site
+.Rproj.user
diff --git a/omicsplayground.Rproj b/omicsplayground.Rproj
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d8e47d57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/omicsplayground.Rproj
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 4
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+
+StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes
+
+BuildType: Makefile