diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..206a9a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+^mvgam\.Rproj$
+^\.Rproj\.user$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..24cf163a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Package: mvgam
+Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
+Version: 0.0.0.9000
+Authors@R: 
+    person(given = "First",
+           family = "Last",
+           role = c("aut", "cre"),
+           email = "first.last@example.com",
+           comment = c(ORCID = "YOUR-ORCID-ID"))
+Description: What the package does (one paragraph).
+License: `use_mit_license()`, `use_gpl3_license()` or friends to
+    pick a license
+Encoding: UTF-8
+LazyData: true
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ae92683
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+
diff --git a/mvgam.Rproj b/mvgam.Rproj
index 8e3c2ebc..69fafd4b 100644
--- a/mvgam.Rproj
+++ b/mvgam.Rproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Version: 1.0
 
-RestoreWorkspace: Default
-SaveWorkspace: Default
+RestoreWorkspace: No
+SaveWorkspace: No
 AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
 
 EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
@@ -11,3 +11,12 @@ Encoding: UTF-8
 
 RnwWeave: Sweave
 LaTeX: pdfLaTeX
+
+AutoAppendNewline: Yes
+StripTrailingWhitespace: Yes
+LineEndingConversion: Posix
+
+BuildType: Package
+PackageUseDevtools: Yes
+PackageInstallArgs: --no-multiarch --with-keep.source
+PackageRoxygenize: rd,collate,namespace