rfoaas 2.3.3: Limited Rebirth

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:00:00 CDT

The original FOAAS site provided a rather wide variety of REST access points, but it sadky is no more (while the old repo is still there). A newer replacement site FOASS is up and running, but with a somewhat reduced offering. (For example, the two accessors shown in the screenshot are no more. C’est la vie.)

Recognising that perfect may once again be the enemy of (somewhat) good (enough), we have rejigged the rfoaas package in a new release 2.3.3. (The precding version number 2.3.2 corresponded to the upstream version, indicating which API release we matched. Now we just went ‘+ 0.0.1’ but there is no longer a correspondence to the service version at FOASS.)

Accessor functions for each of the now available access points are provided, ans the random sampling accessor getRandomFO() now picks from that set.

My CRANberries service provides a comparison to the previous release. Questions, comments etc should go to the GitHub issue tracker. More background information is on the project page as well as on the github repo