diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dcd5fcb4..0022be86 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 .Rhistory
 .RData
 .Ruserdata
-*.Rproj
 .DS_Store
 .httr-oauth
 doc
diff --git a/infer.Rproj b/infer.Rproj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..21758e67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer.Rproj
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 3
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: knitr
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+
+AutoAppendNewline: Yes
+StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes
+
+BuildType: Package
+PackageUseDevtools: Yes
+PackageInstallArgs: --no-multiarch --with-keep.source