diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6bcf1cd35..d0e08e960 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 .Rhistory
 .Rdata
 data
+other
 # tangled files
 test-tangle.sh
 test-tangle-none.rb