In a-antonopoulou/TestAssignment: Fatality Analysis Reporting (FAR) data functions

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TestAssignment Package - Overview

This is an R package which created as part of the last assignment for the coursera lesson "Building an R Package" which is a part of the "Mastering Software Development in R Specialization".

This package includes the following functions:

fars_read
make_filename
fars_read_years
fars_summarize_years
fars_map_state \ \

Input Files:

As input for this assignment we are using 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 regarding fatal injuries suffered in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

A sample of the data are:

setwd("~/data")

fars_read <- function(filename) {
  if(!file.exists(filename))
    stop("file '", filename, "' does not exist")
  data <- suppressMessages({
    readr::read_csv(filename, progress = FALSE)
  })
  dplyr::tbl_df(data)
}

source <- fars_read("accident_2013.csv")

head(source)

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Final Output:

The final output is given through the execution of the "fars_map_state". This function returns a plot of the incidences for the specified year and state. Specifically, it will return a map of the state specified including the incidences as dots.

Below you can find an example of the incidences for state 45 and year 2013:

setwd("~/data")

fars_read <- function(filename) {
  if(!file.exists(filename))
    stop("file '", filename, "' does not exist")
  data <- suppressMessages({
    readr::read_csv(filename, progress = FALSE)
  })
  dplyr::tbl_df(data)
}

make_filename <- function(year) {
  year <- as.integer(year)
  sprintf("accident_%d.csv.bz2", year)
}

fars_read_years <- function(years) {
  lapply(years, function(year) {
    file <- make_filename(year)
    tryCatch({
      dat <- fars_read(file)
      dplyr::mutate(dat, year = year) %>%
        dplyr::select(MONTH, year)
    }, error = function(e) {
      warning("invalid year: ", year)
      return(NULL)
    })
  })
}

fars_summarize_years <- function(years) {
  dat_list <- fars_read_years(years)
  dplyr::bind_rows(dat_list) %>%
    dplyr::group_by(year, MONTH) %>%
    dplyr::summarize(n = n()) %>%
    tidyr::spread(year, n)
}

fars_map_state <- function(state.num, year) {
  filename <- make_filename(year)
  data <- fars_read(filename)
  state.num <- as.integer(state.num)

  if(!(state.num %in% unique(data$STATE)))
    stop("invalid STATE number: ", state.num)
  data.sub <- dplyr::filter(data, STATE == state.num)
  if(nrow(data.sub) == 0L) {
    message("no accidents to plot")
    return(invisible(NULL))
  }
  is.na(data.sub$LONGITUD) <- data.sub$LONGITUD > 900
  is.na(data.sub$LATITUDE) <- data.sub$LATITUDE > 90
  with(data.sub, {
    maps::map("state", ylim = range(LATITUDE, na.rm = TRUE),
              xlim = range(LONGITUD, na.rm = TRUE))
    graphics::points(LONGITUD, LATITUDE, pch = 46)
  })
}

fars_map_state(45,2013)

Testing

I am working in Windows environment so Travis could not proceed with the testing, this is why I tested it also with appveyor which is the most suitable option for this operating system.