Load hourly-aggregated PurpleAir data for a month

Source: R/sensor_loadMonth.R

A pre-generated airsensor object will be loaded for the given month. Archived data for SCAQMD sensors go back to January, 2018.

The datestamp can must be in the following format:

  • "YYYYmm"

By default, the current month is loaded.

Each airsensor object contains data from a named collection of PurpleAir sensors.

sensor_loadMonth(
  collection = "scaqmd",
  datestamp = NULL,
  timezone = "America/Los_Angeles"
)

Arguments

collection

Name associated with the collection.

datestamp

A date string in ymd order.

timezone

Timezone used to interpret datestamp.

Value

An object of class "pa_timeseries".

See also

pat_createNew

Examples

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

library(AirSensor)

setArchiveBaseUrl("https://airsensor.aqmd.gov/PurpleAir/v1")

sensor_loadMonth("scaqmd", 202005) %>%
  PWFSLSmoke::monitor_timeseriesPlot(style = 'gnats')

}, silent = FALSE)
#> ERROR [2023-04-03 16:31:33] data file could not be loaded from: https://airsensor.aqmd.gov/PurpleAir/v1/airsensor/2020/airsensor_scaqmd_202005.rda
#> Error : Data file could not be loaded from: https://airsensor.aqmd.gov/PurpleAir/v1
# }