diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..886732b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# History files
+.Rhistory
+.Rapp.history
+
+# Session Data files
+.RData
+
+# Example code in package build process
+*-Ex.R
+
+# Output files from R CMD build
+/*.tar.gz
+
+# Output files from R CMD check
+/*.Rcheck/
+
+# RStudio files
+.Rproj.user/
+
+# produced vignettes
+vignettes/*.html
+vignettes/*.pdf
+
+# OAuth2 token, see https://github.com/hadley/httr/releases/tag/v0.3
+.httr-oauth
+
+# knitr and R markdown default cache directories
+/*_cache/
+/cache/
+
+# Temporary files created by R markdown
+*.utf8.md
+*.knit.md
+.Rproj.user
diff --git a/test.r b/test.r
index 280e368..1e214b3 100644
--- a/test.r
+++ b/test.r
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ mytestfunction(x){
 
 # Another smart comment 
 
+# A new comment
\ No newline at end of file