[Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor packages

[Thomas Lin Pedersen]

Currently LinkedIn gives a header with the package name, then bioconductor.org as a byline, followed by: "To install this package, start R and enter: ## try http:// if https:// URLs are not supported source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("FindMyFriends") In most cases, you don't need to download the package archive at all. Bioconductor…”

The header is probably fetched from the h1 element, but why the installation instructions are chosen instead of the package description I don’t know…

Just attaching the Bioconductor logo along with package name and description would by an improvement… (maybe have support for specific package logos and the the bloc logo as fallback?)

best
Thomas

> On 29 Oct 2015, at 14:50, Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For people like me who might be a bit behind on social media, it might be nice to identify where the blurb is generated from.  Is it the first sentence of the description or ...?
> 
> Best,
> Kasper
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Andrzej Oleś <andrzej.oles at gmail.com <mailto:andrzej.oles at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> thank you for sharing your idea!
> 
> One possibility would be to include a package icon/logo next to the package
> name if the package provides one. This file could be saved as inst/logo.png
> or vignettes/logo.png, e.g. see
> https://github.com/aoles/EBImage/blob/master/vignettes/logo.png <https://github.com/aoles/EBImage/blob/master/vignettes/logo.png>
> 
> Best,
> Andrzej
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Lin Pedersen <thomasp85 at gmail.com <mailto:thomasp85 at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
> > I just sat down to write a linkedIn update about my recent package and
> > noticed that a thumbnail styled summary was added once I put in the URL for
> > my package (this is probably old news - I’m not much of a social media
> > guy). The summary was a bit dull though, and I was wondering if it was
> > possible to change something on the package landing pages to spice these
> > thumbnails up a bit, so they would appear more exciting when people share
> > their work on Facebook/linkedIn/Twitter…
> >
> > Don’t know how much work this entail - it is definitely in the
> > nice-to-have rather than need-to-have pile of feature requests
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