diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
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+^.*\.Rproj$
+^\.Rproj\.user$
+^\.Rproj\inst\dataRetrieval.log
+^\.Rproj\inst\dataRetrieval-concordance.tex
+^\.Rproj\inst\dataRetrieval.toc
+^\.Rproj\inst\dataRetrieval.tex
+^\.travis\.yml$
+^\.Rproj\.gitignore
+^\.Rproj\.RData
+^\.Rproj\dataRetrieval.Rproj
+^\.Rproj\.Rhistory
+^\.Rproj\.travis.yml
+^\.Rproj\appveyor.yml
+