diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index e13c405..a10fc7d 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
 ^LICENSE\.md$
+^CRAN-RELEASE$
+^cran-comments\.md$
diff --git a/CRAN-RELEASE b/CRAN-RELEASE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f99a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CRAN-RELEASE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+This package was submitted to CRAN on 2020-07-01.
+Once it is accepted, delete this file and tag the release (commit a2a25457ae).
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8b4c4c9..97219f3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Package: stickr
 Type: Package
 Title: View and Use R Hex Stickers
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.1
 Authors@R: person("Alex", "Gold", email = "alexkgold@gmail.com",
   role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Description: Download and use R hex stickers. Stickers made 
   available in standardized locations in GitHub repositories, as well as those in the 
-  [`rstudio/hex-stickers`](github.com/rstudio/hex-stickers) repository will be available.
+  <https://github.com/rstudio/hex-stickers> repository will be available.
 URL: https://github.com/akgold/stickr
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/R/funs.R b/R/funs.R
index 5d852d5..a2cdccb 100644
--- a/R/funs.R
+++ b/R/funs.R
@@ -181,10 +181,13 @@ pkg_repo <- function(pkg) {
 }
 
 get_pkg_git <- function(pkg) {
-  if (!pkg %in% rownames(utils::installed.packages())) return(NULL)
+  desc <- tryCatch(utils::packageDescription(pkg),
+                   warning = function(e) "Not Found")
 
-  txt <- unclass(utils::packageDescription(pkg))[c("url", "bugreports",
-                                            "URL", "BugReports")]
+  if (desc[1] == "Not Found") return(NULL)
+
+  txt <- unclass(desc)[c("url", "bugreports",
+                         "URL", "BugReports")]
   txt <- txt[!vapply(txt, is.null, logical(1))]
   if (length(txt) == 0) return(NULL)
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..809e7e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+## Test environments
+* local R installation, R 3.5.2
+* ubuntu 16.04 (on travis-ci), R 3.5.2
+* win-builder (devel)
+
+## R CMD check results
+
+0 errors | 0 warnings | 1 note
+
+* This is a new release.