Retrieve historical data for a single sensor. — pa

Sends a request to the PurpleAir API endpoint described at: https://api.purpleair.com/#api-sensors-get-sensor-history

pa_getSensorHistory(
  api_key = NULL,
  sensor_index = NULL,
  start_timestamp = NULL,
  end_timestamp = NULL,
  average = 10,
  fields = SENSOR_HISTORY_PM25_FIELDS,
  baseUrl = "https://api.purpleair.com/v1/sensors"
)

Arguments

api_key: PurpleAir API READ key.
sensor_index: The sensor_index as found in the JSON for this specific sensor.
start_timestamp: Optional Unix timestamp in seconds since Jan 1, 1970.
end_timestamp: Optional Unix timestamp in seconds since Jan 1, 1970.
average: Temporal averaging in minutes performed by PurpleAir. One of: 0 (raw), 10, 30, 60 (hour), 360, 1440 (day).
fields: Character string specifying which 'sensor data fields' to include in the response.
baseUrl: URL endpoint for the "Get Sensor History" API.

Value

List with historical data for a single sensor.

Examples

# \donttest{
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

library(AirSensor)

start <-
  MazamaCoreUtils::parseDatetime("2023-01-29 00:00:00", timezone = "UTC") %>%
  as.numeric()

end <-
  MazamaCoreUtils::parseDatetime("2023-01-30 00:00:00", timezone = "UTC") %>%
  as.numeric()

pa_getSensorHistory(
  api_key = PURPLE_AIR_API_READ_KEY,
  sensor_index = 896,
  start_timestamp = start,
  end_timestamp = end,
  average = 0,
  fields = SENSOR_HISTORY_PM25_FIELDS
)

}, silent = FALSE)
#> Error in MazamaCoreUtils::stopIfNull(api_key) : 
#>   object 'PURPLE_AIR_API_READ_KEY' not found
# }