openair: Data Analysis Tools for the Air Quality Community

Authors

Karl Ropkins, University of Leeds
David C. Carslaw, King’s College London

Date of this Version

6-2012

Document Type

Article

Citation

The R Journal (June 2012) 4(1)

Comments

Copyright 2012, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported

Abstract

The openair package contains data analysis tools for the air quality community. This paper provides an overview of data importers, main functions, and selected utilities and workhorse functions within the package and the function output class, as of package version 0.4-14. It is intended as an explanation of the rationale for the package and a technical description for those wishing to work more inter actively with the main functions or develop additional functions to support ‘higher level’ use of openair and R.