In josealburgos/CourseraPackage: This package graphs accidents in the USA by State

This package can be installed using the devtools package as follows:

library(devtools)
install_github("josealburgos/CourseraPackage")

Usage of the Package CourseraPackage

This package is intended to graph information from 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. This package shows fatalities by state.

Data can be downloaded from [https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars].

One way to use this package is to save your downloaded files into your working directory as follows:

setwd("file path here")

There are two main formulas in this package:

fars_summarize_years(year)
fars_map_state(state, year)

The first formula summarizes fatalities by year and month. The second formula displays fatalities in a map, depending of the state and year selected. The following code will map fatalities for a selected year and for selected states.