Flight179: Flight times

In Lock5withR: Datasets for 'Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data'

Description

Flight times for Flight 179 (Boston-SF) and Flight 180 (SF-Boston)

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 3 variables.

• Date Date of the flight (5th, 15th and 25th of each month in 2010) as a factor

• MDY Date as a date object

• Flight179 Flying time (Boston-SF) in minutes

• Flight180 Fllying time (SF-Boston) in minutes

Details

United Airlines Flight 179 is a daily flight from Boston to San Francisco. Flight 180 goes in the other direction (SF to Boston). The data show the airborn flying times for each flight on the three dates each month (5th, 15th and 25th) in 2010.

Source

Data collected from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics website at http://www.bts.gov/xml/ontimesummarystatistics/src/dstat/OntimeSummaryAirtime.xml

Examples

data(Flight179)

Lock5withR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:43 p.m.