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Use R to get data from the Environmental Protection Agency API.
https://github.com/ropensci/epair

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Use R to get data from the Environmental Protection Agency API

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epair

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A package designed to aid in getting data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) API at
https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html.

Overview

The epair package helps you determine what data you want and how to get that data from the EPA API.
It provides loaded in variables that help you navigate services in the API, and a simple way to query the data.

Broadly, you can explore possible calls by typing epair::get_ and seeing what autocomplete offers in R.
Most of these functions require a start and end date along with a geographical boundary type (like CBSA code or bounding box). For more details, we recommend looking at the help docs ?epair::get_[type]() for the function you're interested in using to see the exact required params.

Installation

You can download the package simply by using r-universe.

install.packages("epair", repos = "https://ropensci.r-universe.dev")

Alternativately, you can download the latest release from this repo using devtools.

devtools::install_github("ropensci/epair")

Or, download these files, and in your working directory run the following.

devtools::install("ropensci/epair")

epair depends on httr for making its data calls and rvest for creating the variables loaded in with the package. We recommend having httr installed (automatically taken care of through package dependencies), and only installing rvest if you're curious about how package variables were made.

Usage notes

Note that currently a single call to AQS allows for at maximum a single year's worth of data. You'll need to create separate calls to get multiple year's worth of data.

ropenaq

You may want to check out ropenaq instead depending on the goals behind your study. ropenaq is an R wrapper for accessing the OpenAQ API - see its website here. Here are a few differences:

  • epair will get data from a single source (EPA AQS API), while ropenaq will be more useful if you’re trying to compare data from different sources.

  • If you're interested in data for the US only, epair would be an appropriate choice. For more locations across the world, ropenaq would work better.

  • epair’s data source does offer more granularity than OpenAQ for US data. The EPA AQS API can give over 500 parameters/pollutants of interest (as opposed to OpenAQ’s 5), county level coverage, and unaggregated raw data. By default, OpenAQ will give aggregated data so if you're only interested in aggregations, then OpenAQ is the way to go.

Terms of Service

Make sure you also see the Usage Tips and Terms of Service associated with using this API at https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html.

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