diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
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+++ b/.Rbuildignore
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+^govinfoR\.Rproj$
+^\.Rproj\.user$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+.Rproj.user
+.Rhistory
+.Rdata
+.httr-oauth
+.DS_Store
+.quarto
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+Package: govinfoR
+Title: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
+Version: 0.0.0.9000
+Authors@R: 
+    person("First", "Last", , "first.last@example.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
+           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
+Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
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+++ b/NAMESPACE
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+# Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+
diff --git a/govinfoR.Rproj b/govinfoR.Rproj
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+Version: 1.0
+
+RestoreWorkspace: No
+SaveWorkspace: No
+AlwaysSaveHistory: Default
+
+EnableCodeIndexing: Yes
+UseSpacesForTab: Yes
+NumSpacesForTab: 2
+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