Tstopslookup: Search for information on a stop with a given name. Useful...

In MBTAr: Access Data from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Web API

Description

Search for information on a stop with a given name. Useful when stop_id is not known.

Usage

Tstopslookup(stop_name)

Arguments

stop_name

Name of stop to search for.

Value

Dataframe with row for each potential matching stop and the following columns:

route_id	GTFS-compatible route_id for the stop match.
direction_id	Direction ID (0/1)
direction_name	Human-readable direction identifier
stop_order	Order in given direction of stop
stop_id	GTFS-compatible ID of stop
stop_name	Name of stop
parent_station	Parent station GTFS-compatible ID
parent_station_name	Parent station name
stop_lat	Stop latitude
stop_lon	Stop longitude

Examples

## Not run: 
Tstopslookup(stop_name = "Mattapan") # this would take a long tiem (~70 seconds) so is left out here

## End(Not run)

MBTAr documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:59 a.m.