In Arcturio/mipqueteria: Analysis of fars files

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This package is an exercise of the week 4 "Building R Packages" course on Coursera, part of the Johns Hopkins University "Mastering Software Development in R" specialization. Contains the 5 documented functions of week 2.Serves to read data from the National Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Reporting System. List fatal vehicle accidents in the United States for each year; Each shock observation can have up to 50 characteristics.

Installation

To install this package to run on your system, please first install and load the devtools package. Then you may install and load this package thus:

install_github('Arcturio/mipaqueteria')
library(mipaqueteria)

Content

This package uses the following functions

make_filename()
fars_read()
fars_read_years()
fars_summarize_years()
fars_map_state()

With these functions it is possible to read information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data. It lists the fatal vehicle crashes in the United States for each year; Each crash observation can have as many as 50 features.