diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b6a0652566d10360493952aec6d4a4febc77083
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.RData
+.Ruserdata
diff --git a/DEM2POINT.R b/DEM2POINT.R
index fa9fc30f0e948d24af363c93351b1c492bb94562..03f2b56ff106243ba5780e4ae54b2c4b12a19c1b 100644
--- a/DEM2POINT.R
+++ b/DEM2POINT.R
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-## Install of additional packages
-## pkgs are will only be downloaded, if they aren't installed yet
+#  1. Install additional packages #-----------------------------------------
+# pkgs are will only be downloaded, if they aren't installed yet
 pkgNeeded <- c("raster", "maptools", "sp", "dismo", "rasterVis", "rgdal")
 isInstalled <- sapply(pkgNeeded, require, character.only = TRUE)
 print(isInstalled)
diff --git a/map-digitalisation-for-qgis.Rproj b/map-digitalisation-for-qgis.Rproj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e3c2ebc99e2e337f7d69948b93529a437590b27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/map-digitalisation-for-qgis.Rproj
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: Default
+SaveWorkspace: Default
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+Encoding: UTF-8
+
+RnwWeave: Sweave
+LaTeX: pdfLaTeX