diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 94af330f02015c9a87d80c74d9a1fe07a91fb191..70124b1ed69c62ee52e346590db8b2b1d879ebca 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 ^ci$
 ^data-raw$
 ^revdep$
+^\.devcontainer$
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a70947c1b8f29d7bf2d47538d8df9e32673ea979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+	"image": "rocker/verse:devel"
+}