diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ab5c6e5aefb7e5a0a9df03f57a39f018e2c7bc83..02d3192e91a081325145eb32b2b12ec0527d04a9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -161,3 +161,9 @@ cython_debug/
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
 .~lock.*#
+.Rproj*
+*.Rproj
+.Rhistory
+resultsFigures/figures/*
+resultsFigures/data/*
+.Rproj.user