DOCS: How is README.md stripped and included on package page?

[HenrikBengtsson]

I see that some packages have extensive documentation on their METACRAN package pages, e.g. http://www.r-pkg.org/pkg/ggplot2 and http://www.r-pkg.org/pkg/knitr.

My best guess is that this extra information is incorporated if there exist a README.md file in the built package *.tar.gz. Is this correct? Does README.md need to be installed as well, or is it enough if it is part of *.tar.gz, e.g. excluded by R.instignore?

Is METACRAN getting this from the *.tar.gz file or from elsewhere such as https://github.com/cran/?

I'm asking because I added README.md to https://cran.r-project.org/package=R.cache (new version on CRAN since 2015-11-12), but its content does not show on http://www.r-pkg.org/pkg/R.cache. I noticed that https://github.com/cran/R.cache hasn't been updated - could that be why?

[gaborcsardi]

Hi Henrik, these are the readmes that we pick up, from the tar.gz published on CRAN: https://github.com/metacran/readme-builder-app/blob/5c9af5a33f68d7fcc59bd16509b3d6fd59919d20/lib/build_readme.js#L8-L11

Indeed, the https:://github.com/cran pages are not updated now, simply because I left Harvard and they turned off my server. That's why readmes from the newly updated and published packages are not picked up.

I'll fix it soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[tbates]

I see this is still the case... anything we can do to help?