This R data package provides rail information about rail trails from the excellent TrailLink website, sponsored by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Includes information (such as name, length, surface, and reviews) 3,846 trails in every state in the United States.
You can install railtrails with the install.packages()
function.
install.packages("railtrails")
Here is how to load the data:
d <- railtrails::railtrails
d
#> # A tibble: 3,846 x 11
#> state name distance surface category mean_review description n_reviews
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 AK Chas… 14 Dirt, … Rail-Tr… 4 "\r\n … 1 Reviews
#> 2 AK Tony… 11 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 3 AK Bird… 13 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 4 AK Camp… 7.5 Asphal… Greenwa… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 5 AK Goos… 1.5 Asphal… Greenwa… 0 "\r\n … 0 Reviews
#> 6 AK Home… 4 Asphalt Greenwa… 5 "On the so… 1 Reviews
#> 7 AK Lani… 3.9 Asphal… Greenwa… 3 "The Lanie… 1 Reviews
#> 8 AK Palm… 6.1 Gravel Rail-Tr… 0 "As its na… 0 Reviews
#> 9 AK Ship… 2.6 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 4 " \r\nShip… 1 Reviews
#> 10 AL Chie… 33 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "In northe… 77 Revie…
#> # ... with 3,836 more rows, and 3 more variables: raw_reviews <list>,
#> # lat <dbl>, lng <dbl>
You may want to "unnest" the list-column with reviews in the following way:
library(tidyr)
d <- railtrails::railtrails
d <- d %>% unnest(raw_reviews)
d
#> # A tibble: 24,413 x 11
#> state name distance surface category mean_review description n_reviews
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 AK Chas… 14 Dirt, … Rail-Tr… 4 "\r\n … 1 Reviews
#> 2 AK Tony… 11 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 3 AK Tony… 11 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 4 AK Tony… 11 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 5 AK Tony… 11 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 6 AK Tony… 11 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 7 AK Bird… 13 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 8 AK Bird… 13 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 9 AK Bird… 13 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 10 AK Camp… 7.5 Asphal… Greenwa… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> # ... with 24,403 more rows, and 3 more variables: lat <dbl>, lng <dbl>,
#> # raw_reviews <int>
An interactive web application (Shiny) for finding the top-rated trails in each state is available here. The source code is in the app directory.
See more information about the variables with ?railtrails
If you like using this package, please consider visiting or even making a donation to the Rails to Trails Conservancy at via https://www.traillink.com/
The data was last updated 2018/2/2
Contributions are welcome. Pull requests and requests for features can be made on GitHub
Thank you to Bob Rudis for feedback that helped to improve this package
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