diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b30d0d2..ca27a2e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
 
 ## MAJOR CHANGES
 
-- the markdown extension 'ingore_math' was replaced with 'latex_math'.
+- the markdown extension 'ignore_math' was replaced with 'latex_math'.
 
 - users can now use the markdown.HTML.stylesheet option to override the package default stylesheet.
 
diff --git a/R/rpubs.R b/R/rpubs.R
index 39e1588..1cdc8a2 100644
--- a/R/rpubs.R
+++ b/R/rpubs.R
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ rpubsUpload <- function(title,
    if (!file.exists(htmlFile))
       stop("specified htmlFile does not exist")
    if (!is.list(properties))
-      stop("properties paramater must be a named list")
+      stop("properties parameter must be a named list")
 
    parseHeader <- function(header) {
       split <- strsplit(header, ": ")[[1]]