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 (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-04-07T17:45:29.000Z (20 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-04-22T02:03:13.318Z (5 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: 5.69 MB
• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 4
• Releases: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Contributing: contributing.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • 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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```{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
# 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: 2.0.6
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.RAQSAPI
identifiers:
- type: url
  value: https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html
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 <https://doi.org/ 10.32614/CRAN.package.RAQSAPI>.
authors:
- family-names: Mccrowey
  given-names: Clinton
  email: mccrowey.clinton@epa.gov
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
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• Kind: organization
• Description:
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Name	Email	Commits
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Andy Chase	c****w@e****v	1

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