europollution: 'europollution' package

In vincentbagilet/europollution: R wrapper to access air pollution data from the European Environment Agency

Description

A R wrapper to access air pollution data from the European Environment Agency

Details

This package is R wrapper to access air pollution data from the European Environment Agency, along with some potentially useful data wrangling functions.

Air pollution data from the European Environment Agency comes in a specific format and it requires some coding to gather it in a nice data frame. The following package provides this short coding and wrangles the data into a user-friendly 'R' format.

Functions

This package contains the functions:

• ep_get_urls: creates a vector of the URLs for the datasets

• ep_metadata: downloads sampling point metadata

• ep_download: downloads air pollution data for European cities

• ep_search_pollutant: provides the code for a pollutant based on its name

Data source

• A detailed decription of the dataset can be found here: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/aqereporting-8

• Instructions on access to the data are provided here: https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm

On the EEA website, the process to access the data is as follows:

1. Write a simple request URL based on values of parameters.

2. This request URL leads to a set of URLs enabling to download a large number of data files, separately.

3. Download the files.

The present package enables to simplify and somehow automatize the download process in R. It also provides simple cleaning functions.

vincentbagilet/europollution documentation built on May 22, 2020, 12:07 a.m.