NEWS.md

In quishqa/qualR: An R package to download São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro air pollution data

qualR 0.9.6

Changes

• Function names from CamelCase to snake_case
• Better and consistent naming of returned data frames variables and datasets.

New Features

• Updated qualR site.
• Vignette with examples are available.

qualR 0.9.5

Changes

• CetesbRetrive function is now depreciated. Use CetesbRetrieveParam instead.
• CetesbRetrieveAll is now called CetesbRetrieveMetPol

New Features

• Monitor Ar Program air quality network is included. Download meteorological parameters and air pollution from Rio de Janeiro city are now available through MonitorArRetrieve functions.
• All functions has verbose option to print query summary.
• All functions can export downloaded data to .csv files.
• Units added in parameters datasets cetesb_paramand monitor_ar_param.

Bug Fixes

• Now qualR uses httr instead of RCurl package to fix SSL23_SERVER_HELLO error on Windows.

qualR 0.9.1

Features

• Initial version
• Download one parameter from one air quality station with CetesbRetrieve function.
• Download criteria pollutants from one air quality station with CetesbRetrievePol function.
• Download meteorological parameters from one air quality station with CetesbRetrieveMet function.
• Download criteria pollutants and meteorological parameters from one air quality station with CetesbRetrieveAll function.

quishqa/qualR documentation built on June 10, 2025, 7:28 p.m.