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Read Facility Registry Service (FRS) dataset of EPA-regulated sites

Source: R/frs_read.R
frs_read.Rd

This is just a helper function used to create the dataset for use in EJAM

Usage

frs_read(fullpath = "NATIONAL_SINGLE.csv", only_essential_cols = TRUE)

Arguments

fullpath

path to output of frs_unzip

only_essential_cols

whether to keep only a few columns needed for EJAM package (see source code)

Value

A data.table with columns as noted in details.

Details

Uses data.table::fread()

More than 4 million rows of data.

See frs_get() for more details on which fields might be useful.



 Default is just the most useful columns:

 [1] "REGISTRY_ID"             "PRIMARY_NAME"            "PGM_SYS_ACRNMS"
 [4] "INTEREST_TYPES"          "NAICS_CODES"             "NAICS_CODE_DESCRIPTIONS"
 [7] "SIC_CODES"               "SIC_CODE_DESCRIPTIONS"   "LATITUDE83"
 [10] "LONGITUDE83"

 Full set of fields would be these:

[1] "FRS_FACILITY_DETAIL_REPORT_URL" "REGISTRY_ID"                    "PRIMARY_NAME"
[4] "LOCATION_ADDRESS"               "SUPPLEMENTAL_LOCATION"          "CITY_NAME"
[7] "COUNTY_NAME"                    "FIPS_CODE"                      "STATE_CODE"
[10] "STATE_NAME"                     "COUNTRY_NAME"                   "POSTAL_CODE"
[13] "FEDERAL_FACILITY_CODE"          "FEDERAL_AGENCY_NAME"            "TRIBAL_LAND_CODE"
[16] "TRIBAL_LAND_NAME"               "CONGRESSIONAL_DIST_NUM"         "CENSUS_BLOCK_CODE"
[19] "HUC_CODE"                       "EPA_REGION_CODE"                "SITE_TYPE_NAME"
[22] "LOCATION_DESCRIPTION"           "CREATE_DATE"                    "UPDATE_DATE"
[25] "US_MEXICO_BORDER_IND"           "PGM_SYS_ACRNMS"                 "INTEREST_TYPES"
[28] "NAICS_CODES"                    "NAICS_CODE_DESCRIPTIONS"        "SIC_CODES"
[31] "SIC_CODE_DESCRIPTIONS"          "LATITUDE83"                     "LONGITUDE83"
[34] "CONVEYOR"                       "COLLECT_DESC"                   "ACCURACY_VALUE"
[37] "REF_POINT_DESC"                 "HDATUM_DESC"                    "SOURCE_DESC"

See also

frs_update_datasets() which uses frs_get() The main functions that get updates of the data for this package.