[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check: Titles in README

[Sam Albers]

HI all,

Submission of a new version of the tidyhydat package to CRAN, I get
this warning on the pre-test checks for Debian:

* checking top-level files ... WARNING
Conversion of ‘README.md’ failed:
[WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element.
  Defaulting to ‘README’ as the title.
  To specify a title, use ‘title’ in metadata or --metadata title="...".

Here is the actual log:
https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/tidyhydat_0.5.0_20191127_215625/Debian/00check.log

The .yaml header for the README has not changed since the last
successful submission. Looking at the changes to R 3.6.1 patched,
nothing has changed in README requirement AFAIK.

Is this a false positive? If not, any thoughts on how to make it go away?

Best,

Sam