fars_read: Read file
In daferpe/farsdata: Package for Coursera

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

This is a simple function that reads data from a .csv file. That file is coming 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.

1	fars_read(filename)

filename

A character string giving the file name which will be reading by the function

This function returns a dataframe with the information in the file. If the file does not exist, it will return an error.

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filename_param <- system.file('data', 'accident_2013.csv.bz2',
                             package = 'farsdata')
fars_read(filename = filename_param)