Download raw OpenAQ measurements

Downloads raw measurements from OpenAQ for a single location and returns a wide data frame with one column per requested parameter.

OpenAQ_downloadRawData(
  locations_id = NULL,
  parameters = c("pm25", "temperature", "relativehumidity"),
  data = c("hours", "measurements"),
  startdate = NULL,
  enddate = NULL,
  limit = 1000,
  maxPages = 10,
  sleepSeconds = 0.2,
  api_key = NULL
)

Arguments

locations_id

OpenAQ location ID.

parameters

Specific parameters for which to download data.

data

Character string specifying the data interval to return.

startdate

Desired start datetime as POSIXct.

enddate

Desired end datetime as POSIXct.

limit

Maximum number of records to request per page.

maxPages

Maximum number of pages to request automatically.

sleepSeconds

Number of seconds to pause between additional requests.

api_key

OpenAQ API key.

Value

A data frame with columns `datetime` plus one column for each requested parameter.

Details

For each requested parameter, this function identifies matching sensors at the requested location, downloads all available pages of measurements up to `maxPages`, stacks measurements across sensors, sorts by `datetime`, and deduplicates by keeping the record from the most recently active sensor. The final data frame is created by joining parameter-specific measurement tables by `datetime`.

Examples

# \donttest{
try({
  if (interactive()) {
    initializeMazamaSpatialUtils()

    # NOTE:  Read environment vars from .env file with dotenv::load_dot_env()
    OPENAQ_API_KEY <- Sys.getenv("OPENAQ_API_KEY")

    raw_data <-
      OpenAQ_downloadRawData(
        locations_id = 1370216,
        startdate = "2026-04-01",
        enddate = "2026-04-15",
        api_key = OPENAQ_API_KEY
      )

    raw_data %>% plot()

  }
}, silent = FALSE)
# }