diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index a67ded2..9388454 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^\.github$
 ^README\.Rmd$
+^Makefile$
+^Jenkinsfile$
diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/Jenkinsfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77d18ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Jenkinsfile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+pipeline {
+  agent any {
+    stages {
+      stage('Build') {
+        steps {
+          make build
+        }
+      }
+      stage('Check') {
+        steps {
+          make check
+        }
+      }
+      stage('Clean') {
+        steps {
+          make clean
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..664fc9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# h/t to @jimhester and @yihui for this parse block:
+# https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/dc5ead7bcfc0ebd2789fe99c527c7d91afb3de4a/Makefile#L1-L4
+# Note the portability change as suggested in the manual:
+# https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Writing-portable-packages
+PKGNAME = `sed -n "s/Package: *\([^ ]*\)/\1/p" DESCRIPTION`
+PKGVERS = `sed -n "s/Version: *\([^ ]*\)/\1/p" DESCRIPTION`
+
+
+all: check
+
+build: install_deps
+	R CMD build .
+
+check: build
+	R CMD check --no-manual $(PKGNAME)_$(PKGVERS).tar.gz
+
+install_deps:
+	Rscript \
+	-e 'if (!requireNamespace("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")' \
+	-e 'remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE)'
+
+install: build
+	R CMD INSTALL $(PKGNAME)_$(PKGVERS).tar.gz
+
+clean:
+	@rm -rf $(PKGNAME)_$(PKGVERS).tar.gz $(PKGNAME).Rcheck