R Observatory: Metrics for raqs version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

raqs

1.0.2Package record

Interface to the US EPA Air Quality System (AQS) API

1packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jaehyun JooCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Offers functions for fetching JSON data from the US EPA Air Quality System (AQS) API with options to comply with the API rate limits. See https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html for details of the AQS API.

Changes in 1.0.2

Set minimum R-version 4.1 due to the use of native pipe-operator.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("raqs", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("HimesGroup/raqs")

Development version from HimesGroup/raqs. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-raqs

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-raqs

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-raqs

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 23 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 11%2 run in a plain check · 17 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,695 · ~7/day · ~209/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23930 days

57990 days

2.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

himesgroup/raqs ↗Organization: HimesGroup

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2023-11-20

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/himesgroup/raqs on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing raqs adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 5.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (2)

cli httr2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

data.table tibble

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pargasite

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Jaehyun Joo

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Blanca Himes

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-11-20 · current release · diff ↗
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2023-09-24 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2023-09-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-09-11
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 27 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("raqs")

Format

Joo, J., & Himes, B. (2023). raqs: Interface to the US EPA Air Quality System (AQS) API (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.raqs

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for raqs version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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