In jystatistics/fars: Fatality Analysis Reporting System

This package is a Peer-graded Assignment for the course of Coursera: Building an R Package.

This package provides utility functions to view and plot data from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System. For more details visit: http://www.nhtsa.gov/Data/Fatality-Analysis-Reporting-System-(FARS)

In the following, all functions contained are described.

Reading Data

The make_filename provides an easy way to create the filename required. Example:

fars_filename <- make_filename(2013)

Afterward you can use the fars_read to read the data. Example

fars <- fars_read_years(years = 2015)

This function convert .csv.bz2 in tbl_df object.

Manipulating Data

fars_read_years is a simple function that filter data in function of the years.

fars_read_years:

fars2015 <- fars_read_years(years = 2015)

You can Manipulating Data using fars_summarize_years This function create a summary table with counts of a number of records for each month in specified years.

farssummary <- fars_summarize_years(2013:2015)

Ploting Data

Finally, You can plot your map of the count of accidents in a specific state in a specific year using fars_map_state.

library(mapdata)
fars_map_state(10, 2013)

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jystatistics/fars documentation built on May 27, 2019, 3:31 p.m.