R devel - Feb 2008 - NEWS and ChangeLog in available.packages()

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.

>>>>> "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.