"Jiří Hon"
> > To: "bioc-devel"
> > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:05:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor
> packages
>
> > The implementation of Open Graph protocol should solve this, at least
> >
- Original Message -
> From: "Jiří Hon"
> To: "bioc-devel"
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:05:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor
> packages
> The implementation of Open Graph protocol should s
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
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`
And then there might be a whole problem about different social media
summarising html content in different ways. This might be more trouble than
it’s worth but more and more scientific news are moving to social media and it
would definitely help share the Bioconductor brand (geez, I sound like a
It seems to be pulling it from an invisible `#tooltip` div on the page.
This happens to be the first `` block on the page, which is probably why
it is being used by linkedin.
```html
To install this package, start R and enter:
## try http:// if https:// URLs are not supported
source("https://
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
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
wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> thank you for sharing your idea!
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 possibl
