fars_read_years: Reads data from a compressed file based on a specific year.

In Cesar-Urteaga/rfars: Functions to analize the US census of fatal crash vehicle injuries

Description

For the data provided by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, fars_read_years will read the data for a specific period, and it will return a variable (MONTH) in the dataset.

Usage

fars_read_years(years)

Arguments

years

A numeric vector representing the years of a time period.

Value

A tibble object with the data of car fatalities by month for each year in the specified period.

Warning

Provided that a file does not exist for a specific year, the function will throw a warning that the information was not read.

Examples

# We set the working directory where the compressed files are stored within
# the package.
WD <- setwd(system.file("extdata", package = "rfars"))
# Data with the car fatalities in 2013.
fars_read_years(2013)
# Data with the car fatalities in 2013 and 2014.
fars_read_years(c(2013, 2014))
setwd(WD)

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