RAQSAPI

Retrieve data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Systems.
https://github.com/USEPA/RAQSAPI

Category: Natural Resources
Sub Category: Air Quality

Keywords

airmonitoring aqs datamart environmental-data-retrieval environmental-monitoring r03 rpackage rprogramming usepa

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A R extension to retrieve EPA Air Quality System Data via the AQS Data Mart API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/USEPA/RAQSAPI
• Owner: USEPA
• License: other
• Created: 2021-02-16T20:34:45.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-12-12T17:52:00.000Z (27 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-19T23:03:06.162Z (20 days ago)
• Topics: airmonitoring, aqs, datamart, environmental-data-retrieval, environmental-monitoring, r03, rpackage, rprogramming, usepa
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=RAQSAPI
• Size: 4.99 MB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 3
• Releases: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE
  • Citation: CITATION.cff
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

README.Rmd

          ---
title: "Introduction to the RAQSAPI package"
author: Clinton Mccrowey, physical scientist - US EPA  
abstract: RAQSAPI is a package for R that connects the R programming language
  environment to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality
  System (AQS) Data Mart database for retrieval of ambient air pollution data.
output:
  rmarkdown::github_document:
    toc: true
  rmarkdown::html_document: null
lang: en-US
bibliography: ./vignettes/AQSAPI.bib
csl: ./vignettes/acs-nano.csl
---
```{r SETUP, echo = FALSE, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  tidy.ops = list(width.cutoff = 80),
  tidy = TRUE
)
```



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  https://github.com/USEPA/RAQSAPI/workflows/R-CMD-check/badge.svg)](
  https://github.com/USEPA/RAQSAPI/actions)
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  https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RAQSAPI)
  [![metacran downloads](https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/RAQSAPI)](
                         https://cran.r-project.org/package=RAQSAPI)
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  https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
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  https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)
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  `r gsub('-', '--', Sys.Date())`-yellowgreen.svg)](/commits/master)
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                /RAQSAPI/.github/workflows/pkgcheck.yaml)
  

```{r child = "./vignettes/EPA_Disclaimer.Rmd", echo = FALSE, comment = NA}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/Intro.Rmd"}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/TimelinessofAQSData.Rmd"}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/InstallandSetup.Rmd", echo = FALSE, comment = NA}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/UsingRAQSAPI.Rmd"}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/RAQSAPIFunctions-Brief.Rmd"}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/pyaqsapi.Rmd"}
```

```{r child = "./vignettes/Acknowledgements.Rmd"}
```

# References

        

Citation (CITATION.cff)

# -----------------------------------------------------------
# CITATION file created with {cffr} R package, v0.5.0
# See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/
# -----------------------------------------------------------

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: 'To cite package "RAQSAPI" in publications use:'
type: software
license: MIT
title: 'RAQSAPI: A Simple Interface to the US EPA Air Quality System Data Mart API'
version: 2.0.5
abstract: Retrieve air monitoring data and associated metadata from the US Environmental
  Protection Agency's Air Quality System service using functions. See <https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html>
  for details about the US EPA Data Mart API.
authors:
- family-names: Mccrowey
  given-names: Clinton
  email: mccrowey.clinton@epa.gov
- family-names: Sharac
  given-names: Timothy
- family-names: Mangus
  given-names: Nick
- family-names: Jager
  given-names: Doug
- family-names: Brown
  given-names: Ryan
- family-names: Garver
  given-names: Daniel
- family-names: Wells
  given-names: Benjamin
- family-names: Brittingham
  given-names: Hayley
- family-names: Hollister
  given-names: Jeffrey
  email: hollister.jeff@epa.gov
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9254-9740
- family-names: Andrews
  given-names: Edward
  email: edward.s.andrews@wv.gov
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: A R Interface to the US EPA Air Quality System Data Mart API
  authors:
  - family-names: Mccrowey
    given-names: Clinton
    email: mccrowey.clinton@epa.gov
  - family-names: Sharac
    given-names: Timothy
  - family-names: Mangus
    given-names: Nick
  - family-names: Jager
    given-names: Doug
  - family-names: Brown
    given-names: Ryan
  - family-names: Garver
    given-names: Daniel
  - family-names: Wells
    given-names: Benjamin
  - family-names: Brittingham
    given-names: Hayley
  year: '2023'
  url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=RAQSAPI
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RAQSAPI
repository-code: https://github.com/USEPA/RAQSAPI
url: https://github.com/USEPA/RAQSAPI
contact:
- family-names: Mccrowey
  given-names: Clinton
  email: mccrowey.clinton@epa.gov
keywords:
- United State Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental-data-retrieval
- Air-Quality-System
- AQS-Datamart
- Air-monitoring
- Environmental-monitoring
- airmonitoring
- aqs
- datamart
- environmental-data-retrieval
- environmental-monitoring
- r03
- rpackage
- rprogramming
- usepa
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Owner metadata

• Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Login: USEPA
• Email:
• Kind: organization
• Description:
• Website: https://www.epa.gov
• Location: United States of America
• Twitter: EPA
• Company:
• Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1304320?v=4
• Repositories: 449
• Last ynced at: 2024-04-14T19:47:37.473Z
• Profile URL: https://github.com/USEPA

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GitHub Events

Total

• Issues event: 7
• Watch event: 4
• Member event: 1
• Issue comment event: 20
• Push event: 15
• Pull request event: 1
• Fork event: 3

Last Year

• Issues event: 7
• Watch event: 3
• Member event: 1
• Issue comment event: 19
• Push event: 15
• Fork event: 1

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Committers metadata

Last synced: 2 days ago

Name	Email	Commits
Clinton Mccrowey	m****n@e****v	172
Andy Chase	c****w@e****v	1

Committer domains:

• epa.gov: 2

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Package metadata

• Total packages: 1
• Total downloads:
  • cran: 807 last-month
• Total dependent packages: 0
• Total dependent repositories: 0
• Total versions: 5
• Total maintainers: 1

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Dependencies

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