diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 30d729f4..e761bb7c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,70 @@
 
 model-output/.DS_Store
 .DS_Store
+
+.ipynb_checkpoints/
+__pycache__/
+*.*.so
+
+# History files
+.Rhistory
+.Rapp.history
+
+# Session Data files
+.RData
+
+# User-specific files
+.Ruserdata
+
+# 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/
+.Rproj.user
+*.Rproj
+
+# 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
+
+# R Environment Variables
+.Renviron
+packrat/lib*/
+
+# Python build dirs
+#build/
+dist/
+
+# R package manuals
+man/
+
+# pkgdown site
+docs/
+
+# translation temp files
+po/*~
+
+# RStudio Connect folder
+rsconnect/
+
+# RMD files
+*.log
+*.tex