diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 5cc48ba29..7f1fcb06d 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ visual_test
 ^NEWS$
 ^revdep$
 ^\.httr-oauth$
+^codecov\.yml$
diff --git a/codecov.yml b/codecov.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69cb76019
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codecov.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+comment: false