R/nycflights.R

In StatsWithR/statsr: Companion Software for the Coursera Statistics with R Specialization

#' Flights data
#'
#' On-time data for a random sample of flights that departed NYC (i.e. JFK, LGA or EWR) 
#' in 2013.
#'
#' @source Hadley Wickham (2014). \code{nycflights13}: Data about flights departing 
#' NYC in 2013. R package version 0.1. 
#'  \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nycflights13}
#' @format A tbl_df with 32,735 rows and 16 variables:
#' \describe{
#' \item{year,month,day}{Date of departure}
#' \item{dep_time,arr_time}{Departure and arrival times, local tz.}
#' \item{dep_delay,arr_delay}{Departure and arrival delays, in minutes.
#'   Negative times represent early departures/arrivals.}
#' \item{hour,minute}{Time of departure broken in to hour and minutes}
#' \item{carrier}{Two letter carrier abbreviation. See \code{airlines} in the
#'   \code{nycflights13} package for more information}
#' \item{tailnum}{Plane tail number}
#' \item{flight}{Flight number}
#' \item{origin,dest}{Origin and destination. See \code{airports} in the
#'   \code{nycflights13} package for more information, or google airport the code.}
#' \item{air_time}{Amount of time spent in the air}
#' \item{distance}{Distance flown}
#' }
"nycflights"