In jrwinget/Rfars: Rfars R Package

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Package Description

The Rfars 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.

This package is primarily built for educational purposes. The package enables one to explore fatal traffic accidents from 2013-2015 using data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).

Load Packages

library(Rfars)

Included data

Data files included within the package are:

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

Package Functions

Function make_filename

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

make_filename(2015)

Function fars_read_years

Auxiliary function used by fars_summarize_years:

fars_read_years(2013)

Function fars_summarize_years

This function summarizes yearly accidents data by month:

plot(fars_summarize_years(2015))
fars_summarize_years(c(2015, 2014))

Function fars_map_state

The function displays a state map plot including accidents location by year:

state_num <- 49 # Utah
fars_map_state(state_num, 2014)

jrwinget/Rfars documentation built on May 17, 2019, 12:11 a.m.