diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 1db1e0f1f..416f1b10c 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.idea$
 ^\.dev$
+^\.devcontainers$
 ^\.lintr$
 ^\.lintr_new$
 ^wercker\.yml$
diff --git a/.devcontainers/devcontainers.json b/.devcontainers/devcontainers.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..675ee26d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainers/devcontainers.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "image": "rocker/r-base"
+}