R Packages Crack the 3,000 Mark!

Hi Bob,

Does anyone have a program that graphs the growth of R packages? I don't
know if that historical data is around.

John Fox had a slide on this in his useR 2008 talk "The Social 
Organization of the R Project" (page 7), with package counts up to March 
2008. As "Source of Data" he gave https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/. 
I've been digging around in there but really have no idea how he found 
the relevant data there.

I'd be quite interested in this, too, so if you find out anything please 
drop me a line...

Best,
Stephan