README.md

In LOT801106/FARS: Reads, creates tables & Plots from Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data

FARS

A package to perform Accident Data Analysis

This package is developed as an assignment of the Coursera course Building R Packages.

• Package: FARS
• GitHub: https://github.com/LOT801106/FARS
• Travis: https://travis-ci.org/LOT801106/FARS

Functions

• fars_read: Reads a csv file and returns a data frame
• make_filename: Creates a string filename with a specific year
• fars_read_years: Creates a list of data frames by Year with its correspondent Year and Months
• fars_summarize_years: Creates a data frame with the number of accidents by year and month in the US
• fars_map_state: Plots the location of accidents in a US state in a year

Data Source

The functions use data from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which is a nationwide census providing the American public yearly data regardingfatal injuries s uffered in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

Notex

The package has passed the following tests: - the check test of the building step in R studio - intenal test for the functions, created with the testthat package - tests on travis (https://travis-ci.org/LOT801106/FARS)

LOT801106/FARS documentation built on May 10, 2019, 2:41 p.m.