diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 55191a620..be0e79bdb 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ^\.github$
 ^\.pre-commit-config\.yaml$
 ^\.devcontainer$
-^\.Rprofile
+^\.Rprofile$
 ^_pkgdown\.yml$
 ^docs$
 ^data-raw$
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 ^pkgdown$
 ^doc$
 ^Meta$
-README.Rmd
+^README.Rmd$
 ^pkgdown$
 ^vignettes/approx-inference\.Rmd$
 ^vignettes/ebola\.Rmd$
+^\.lintr$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c5bfc7350..d0b4f6e05 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -55,8 +55,7 @@ Suggests:
     priorsense,
     usethis,
     pkgdown,
-    CodeDepends
-LinkingTo:
+    CodeDepends,
     BH (>= 1.66.0),
     Rcpp (>= 0.12.0),
     RcppEigen (>= 0.3.3.3.0)