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+# This file contains information that Git uses to stop specific files from
+# being tracked by Git and being uploaded to GitHub. For example, MacOS users
+# always have this hidden file called `.DS_Store` in each of their folders.
+# We don't need that file kept on GitHub and shared with everyone. So in this
+# file, we tell Git to not track/watch that file.
+
+# Development files and folders
+_ignore
+bin/
+dev/
+
+# Temporary files
+*.tmp
+
+# MacOS
+.DS_Store
+
+# Quarto
+/.quarto/
+
+# Website generation
+*_files
+_site
+_book
+public
+site
+
+# R files
+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.Rdata
+.httr-oauth