afriairports: African airports

In afrimapr/afrilearndata: Small Africa Map Datasets for Learning

Description

a sf object points of African airports. See data-raw/afrilearndata-creation.R for how the data object is created.

Usage

afriairports

Format

Formal class 'sf'; 50 rows 5 columns

• id id numeric

• ident ident XXXX

• type large_airport medium_airport small_airport

• name airport name

• elevation_ft elevation in feet

• continent continent code AF

• country_name country name

• iso_country country code two letters capitalised

• region_name name of region

• iso_region iso region code incl country XX-YY

• local_region region code excl country YY

• municipality municipality

• scheduled_service scheduled_service 1=yes, 2=no

• gps_code gps charecter code

• iata_code iata character code

• local_code local code

• home_link web page url

• wikipedia_link wikipedia url

• keywords keywords

• score score

• last_updated last update

• geometry coordinates of the point sfc_POINT

Geographical coordinates WGS84 datum (CRS EPSG 4326)

Source

https://ourairports.com/continents/AF/airports.csv

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(afriairports)

  # or read from the csv file which is stored in package as example to work with
  # filename <- system.file("extdata","afriairports.csv", package="afrilearndata", mustWork=TRUE)
  # dfairports <- readr::read_csv(filename)
  # and convert to sf object
  # afriairports <- sf::st_as_sf(dfairports, coords=c("longitude_deg", "latitude_deg"), crs=4326)

  #plot(sf::st_geometry(afriairports))
}

afrimapr/afrilearndata documentation built on Nov. 13, 2021, 6:11 p.m.