diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index c0e272e..1ce443d 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ README.md$
 cran_comments.md$
 ^doc$
 ^Meta$
-^\.old$
\ No newline at end of file
+^\.old$
+^\examples$
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d7f934
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+examples/** linguist-vendored
\ No newline at end of file