diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e2b948e6..54098000 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 /data-raw/
 data_prep/data
 data_prep/data-raw
-
+data_prep/_targets
 
 inst/doc
 Meta