convert2016: Convert NBI 2016 ASCII to Tibble

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References

View source: R/convert2016.R

Description

A previously downloaded NBI ASCII CSV file for the 2016 version of Highway Bridges for all States is converted to a tibble with careful QC and renaming of the columns of data.

Columns in the returned tibble include:

  1. stateCode – ISO 3166-2 alpha-2

  2. longitude – decimal degrees E

  3. latitude – decimal degrees N

Usage

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convert2016(filePath = NULL)

Arguments

filePath

location of the NBI 2016 ASCII CSV file

Details

The NBI 2016 dataset can be downloaded from the Federal Highway Administration with the following command:

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curl https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/2016hwybronlyonefile.zip -O

This file should be left in '.zip' format.

Value

Tibble containing QC'ed NBI data.

References

NBI ASCII data

NBI Recording and Coding Guide


MazamaScience/NBI documentation built on May 29, 2019, 4:50 p.m.