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

[Jim Hester]

It seems to be pulling it from an invisible `#tooltip` div on the page.
This happens to be the first `<p>` block on the page, which is probably why
it is being used by linkedin.

```html
<div class="tooltip2" id="tooltip">
    <p>To install this package, start R and enter:</p>
<pre>## try http:// if https:// URLs are not supported
source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("biobroom")</pre>
    <p> In most cases, you don't need to download the
    package archive at all.</p>
</div>
```

Probably these results could be improved by moving this tooltip block below
the package description, or annotating it with some metadata to exclude it
from the linkedin summary (I don't know what that would be).

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, 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>
> 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
> >
> > Best,
> > Andrzej
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Lin Pedersen <
> 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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