So, it's time again. Today (2011-05-12) on CRAN [1]:
"Currently, the CRAN package repository features 3000 available
packages."
Previous milestones:
2009-10-04: 2,000 packages [2]
2007-04-12: 1,000 packages [3]
2004-10-01: 500 packages [4]
2003-04-01: 250 packages [4]
[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
[2] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-October/055049.html
[3] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-April/045359.html
[4] My private in-house data.
/Henrik
PS. There are obviously other package repositories out there, but here
we're counting CRAN packages.
