diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 3b996a1..a37fd07 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ Update package.R
 README.Rmd
 ^\.httr-oauth$
 imgur.key
+^cran-comments\.md$
+^CRAN-RELEASE$
diff --git a/CRAN-RELEASE b/CRAN-RELEASE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce0129b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CRAN-RELEASE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+This package was submitted to CRAN on 2019-09-15.
+Once it is accepted, delete this file and tag the release (commit 763f74ea0b).
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0dee5ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# rwhatsapp 0.2.0
+
+* Initial release to CRAN with first robust version.
+* Added a `NEWS.md` file to track changes to the package.
diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index 975e9ca..40e9096 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ This should work, no matter which device or locale you used to retrieve the `txt
 
 ## Installation
 
+``` r
+install.packages("rwhatsapp")
+``` 
+Or install the GitHub version:
+
 ``` r
 devtools::install_github("JBGruber/rwhatsapp")
 ```
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3368048
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+## Test environments
+* local Kubuntu 18.04, R version 3.6.1
+* win-builder.r-project.org, R-release, R-oldrelease, R-devel
+* R-hub via rhub::check_for_cran()
+* macOS 10.13 (on travis-ci), R: release
+* Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (on travis-ci), R: release, R: oldrel, R: devel
+
+## R CMD check results
+0 ERRORs | 0 WARNINGs | 2 NOTEs
+
+* This is a new release.
+* 1 Note on travis-ci: found 3619 marked UTF-8 strings (this is because of the included emoji data)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-rwhatsapp.R b/tests/testthat/test-rwhatsapp.R
index 80a9f79..4c6b90a 100755
--- a/tests/testthat/test-rwhatsapp.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-rwhatsapp.R
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ converted <- structure(c(1499898922.226, 1499937164.226),
                                  "POSIXt"))
 
 test_that("time is converted correctly", {
+  skip_on_cran()
   # standard
   # dd.MM.yyyy, hh:mm:ss a
   expect_equal(
@@ -420,10 +421,10 @@ test_that("time is converted correctly", {
   )
   # MM-dd-yy, hh:mm a
   expect_equal(
-    rwa_read(x = c(
-      "07-12-17, 10:35 PM - Johannes Gruber: Was it good?",
-      "07-13-17, 09:12 AM - R: Yes, it was"
-    ), tz = "GMT")$time,
+      rwa_read(x = c(
+        "07-12-17, 10:35 PM - Johannes Gruber: Was it good?",
+        "07-13-17, 09:12 AM - R: Yes, it was"
+      ), tz = "GMT")$time,
     converted,
     tolerance = 60
   )