diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 08237d1b4db174edc40eb003616f73dec3ba71f4..37c79a7805319f2cc714e49b074db50ed907a968 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 .*\.tar.gz$
 .*\.pdf$
 .*^(?!inst/).*\.nc$
-README.Rmd$
+README\.Rmd$
+README\.md$
 \..*\.RData$
 vignettes