diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 5009aac..52a7e09 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@
 ^revdep$
 ^\.github$
 ^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
+^include$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index db4df22..7903b33 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -258,5 +258,4 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 inst/doc
 vignettes/*.R
 /revdep
-/include
 /external/tmp
diff --git a/include b/include
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..a0d7c12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+inst/include
\ No newline at end of file