rdefra: Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA

This packages allows to retrieve air pollution data from the Air Information Resource (UK-AIR, https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/) of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in the United Kingdom. UK-AIR does not provide a public API for programmatic access to data, therefore this package scrapes the HTML pages to get relevant information. The package is described in Vitolo et al. (2016) "rdefra: Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA" doi:10.21105/joss.00051 .

See also

Useful links:

• https://docs.ropensci.org/rdefra/

• https://github.com/ropensci/rdefra

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/rdefra/issues

Author

Maintainer: Claudia Vitolo cvitolodev@gmail.com (ORCID) (Claudia is the original creator of the package)

Authors:

• Cheryl Lim cheryl.academic@gmail.com

Other contributors:

• Andrew Russell (This package is part of the KEHRA project and Andrew supervised the technical/software development.) [contributor]

• Allan Tucker (This package is part of the KEHRA project and Allan supervised the technical/software development.) [contributor]

• Maëlle Salmon (Maëlle Salmon reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/68) [contributor]

• Hao Zhu (Hao Zhu reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/68) [contributor]