Netlify attaching site name to one of contact links on newly deployed site

Question

I just deployed a simple personal site from Netlify. It is not the final version yet, but I'm having an issue with one of my buttons. One of my buttons for some reason Netlify has added their own website address to it. Specifically I have my Linkedin address: www.linkedin.com/my_name, but after deploying my site the button now reads https://site_name.netlify.app/www.linkedin.com/my_name.

For reference I used the distill package available in R to build my website. It is very rudimentary and I'm just learning how to do things so hopefully the issue is not too complicated.