Workaround to allow badges in package README.md on github but not in CRAN version

R CMD check packagename_0.1.1.tar.gz --as-cran produces a WARNING if badges are present in README.md. This causes consequences like travis CI to fail (since it treats warnings as errors)

Is there a workaround to get the check to pass without removing the badges?

Here is an example of the WARNING I see

* checking top-level files ... WARNING
Conversion of ‘README.md’ failed:
pandoc: Could not fetch https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/bigrquery
TlsExceptionHostPort (HandshakeFailed (Error_Misc "user error (unexpected type received. expecting handshake and got: Alert [(AlertLevel_Fatal,HandshakeFailure)])")) "www.r-pkg.org" 443

Related: pandoc: Could not fetch http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/package TlsExceptionHostPort (HandshakeFailed