The implementation of Open Graph protocol should solve this, at least for LinkedIn and Facebook. See https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin (at the bottom of the page).

Jiri Hon

Dne 29.10.2015 v 14:59 Jim Hester napsal(a):
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 <
kasperdanielhan...@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.o...@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 <
thomas...@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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