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Environmental Protection Agency Superfund API

src_epa_superfund_data.Rd

src_epa_superfund_data() returns a dataframe of Superfund sites from the Envirofacts API.

Usage

src_epa_superfund_data()

Source

Value

A data frame (data.frame) containing data pulled from the Envirofacts API.

Details

The Envirofacts Multisystem Search integrates information from a variety of databases and includes latitude and longitude information. Each of these databases contains information about facilities that are required to report activity to a state or federal system.

See also

Other data accessors: src_acr_lung_cancer_screening_data(), src_bls_unemployment_data(), src_brfss(), src_cdc_places_data(), src_epa_tri_data(), src_fda_mammography_data(), src_hrsa_facility_data(), src_nppes_gi_data(), src_nppes_onco_data()

Author

Todd Burus tburus@uky.edu

Examples

# example code

sf = src_epa_superfund_data()
#> INFO  [15:32:18.282] Starting epa_superfund_data
#> INFO  [15:32:28.334] Completing epa_superfund_data
dim(sf)
#> [1] 2305    8

if(requireNamespace('ggplot2')) {
  ggplot2::ggplot(sf, ggplot2::aes(x=State)) + 
    ggplot2::geom_bar() +
    ggplot2::coord_flip()
}
#> Loading required namespace: ggplot2


sf_ky = sf |> dplyr::filter(State=='KY')
dim(sf_ky)
#> [1] 21  8

colnames(sf)
#> [1] "Type"         "Name"         "Address"      "State"        "Phone_number"
#> [6] "Notes"        "latitude"     "longitude"   

dplyr::glimpse(sf)
#> Rows: 2,305
#> Columns: 8
#> $ Type         <chr> "Superfund Site", "Superfund Site", "Superfund Site", "Su…
#> $ Name         <chr> "REYNOLDS ALUMINUM BUILDING PROD COMPANY", "LORI CORPORAT…
#> $ Address      <chr> "347 LONGBROOK AVENUE, STRATFORD, CT 06497", "OLD TURNPIK…
#> $ State        <chr> "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT", "CT…
#> $ Phone_number <chr> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "…
#> $ Notes        <chr> "Site is Part of NPL Site", "Site is Part of NPL Site", "…
#> $ latitude     <chr> "41.2", "41.598333", "41.940561", "+41.190000", "41.60055…
#> $ longitude    <chr> "-73.133333", "-72.870000", "-71.966939", "-73.120000", "…