Package Description

fars package reads and plots Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

FARS is a nationwide census, providing the American public yearly data, regarding fatal injuries suffered in motor vehicle traffic crashes.

Load Packages

library(fars)
library(maps)

Included data

Data files included within the package are:

list.files(system.file("extdata", package = "fars"))

Package Functions

Function make_filename

This function returns file name and path to the data files:

yr <- 2015
make_filename(yr)

Function fars_read_years

Ancillary function used by fars_summarize_years

fars_read_years(2013)


dannyjwpark/FARS documentation built on Sept. 17, 2021, 8:56 a.m.