With the newly available NEWS and ChangeLog links on the CRAN pages for packages it would be nice if available.packages() gave information on those.
NEWS and ChangeLog in available.packages()
3 messages · Martin Maechler, Gabor Grothendieck
"GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:19:05 -0500 writes:
GaGr> With the newly available NEWS and ChangeLog links on
GaGr> the CRAN pages for packages it would be nice if
GaGr> available.packages() gave information on those.
how would you propose?
It returns a character matrix, and that probably should not be
changed.
Regards,
Martin
On Feb 18, 2008 11:59 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
"GaGr" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:19:05 -0500 writes:
GaGr> With the newly available NEWS and ChangeLog links on GaGr> the CRAN pages for packages it would be nice if GaGr> available.packages() gave information on those. how would you propose? It returns a character matrix, and that probably should not be changed.
Currently the Depends (and Imports, Contains and Suggests) are character strings containing components to form one large string so maybe there could be a Docs whose substrings could include NEWS, ChangeLog and the vignette and demo names or maybe separate ones for NEWS/ChangeLog, vignettes and demos.