Dirk Eddelbuettel: rfoaas 2.3.3: Limited Rebirth

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

This post by Dirk
Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
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