read_gtfs: Read GTFS files

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Read GTFS files

Description

Reads GTFS text files from either a local .zip file or an URL.

Usage

read_gtfs(
  path,
  files = NULL,
  fields = NULL,
  skip = NULL,
  quiet = TRUE,
  encoding = "unknown"
)

Arguments

path	The path to a GTFS .zip file.
files	A character vector containing the text files to be read from the GTFS (without the .txt extension). If NULL (the default) all existing files are read.
fields	A named list containing the fields to be read from each text file, in the format list(file = c("field1", "field2")). If NULL (the default), all fields from the files specified in files are read. If a file is specified in files but not in fields, all fields from that file will be read (i.e. you may specify in fields only files whose fields you want to subset).
skip	A character vector containing the text files that should not be read from the GTFS, without the .txt extension. If NULL (the default), no files are skipped. Cannot be used if files is already set.
quiet	Whether to hide log messages and progress bars (defaults to TRUE).
encoding	A string, ultimately passed to data.table::fread(). Defaults to "unknown". Other possible options are "UTF-8" and "Latin-1". Please note that this is not used to re-encode the input, but to enable handling encoded strings in their native encoding.

Value

A data.table-based GTFS object: a list of data.tables in which each table represents a GTFS text file.

Details

The column types of each data.table in the final GTFS object conform as closely as possible to the Google's Static GTFS Reference. Exceptions are date-related columns (such as calendar.txt's start_date and end_date, for example), which are converted to Date objects, instead of being kept as integers, allowing for easier data manipulation. These columns are converted back to integers when writing the GTFS object to a .zip file using write_gtfs().

See Also

Other io functions: write_gtfs()

Examples

data_path <- system.file("extdata/spo_gtfs.zip", package = "gtfstools")

gtfs <- read_gtfs(data_path)
names(gtfs)

gtfs <- read_gtfs(data_path, files = c("trips", "stop_times"))
names(gtfs)

gtfs <- read_gtfs(data_path, skip = "trips")
names(gtfs)

gtfs <- read_gtfs(data_path, fields = list(agency = "agency_id"))
names(gtfs)
names(gtfs$agency)

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