diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 8462a9c..7cdbd06 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ README.md
 ^\.github$
 share
 _pkgdown.yml
+.lintr
diff --git a/.lintr b/.lintr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84cecc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.lintr
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+linters: linters_with_defaults(
+    line_length_linter(250),
+    commented_code_linter = NULL,
+    trailing_whitespace_linter(allow_empty_lines = TRUE),
+    object_name_linter = NULL
+  )
+encoding: "UTF-8"