getAEairports: getAEairports

In longwei66/flightR: A package to interract with aviation-edge.com API

Description

A function to get airport information from Aviation Edge API. As stated on aviation-edge.com, this world airport database contains detailed data on "every airport, including private and public airports, airstrips, helipads, seaports and much more".

Available API Options

• The entire database of airports, i.e. get all airports in one shot, this represents ~10k+ items worldwide (with free API)

• Information for a specific airport using it's IATA Code.

• All airports for a specific country using country code (Iso).

Usage

getAEairports(airport.iata.code = NULL, country.iso.code = NULL,
  api.key)

Arguments

airport.iata.code	IATA code of the airport
country.iso.code	ISO code of the country (eg. DE)
api.key	you authentication api key

Value

answer a json object containing airports information details

• "airportId": "7",

• "nameAirport": "Aachen/Merzbruck",

• "codeIataAirport": "AAH",

• "codeIcaoAirport": "EDKA",

• "latitudeAirport": "50.75",

• "longitudeAirport": "6.133333",

• "geonameId": "3247449",

• "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",

• "GMT": "1",

• "phone": "",

• "nameCountry": "Germany",

• "codeIso2Country": "DE",

• "codeIataCity": "AAH"

See Also

https://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/code-search.aspx

Examples

Details about Lisbon (LIS) airport
## Not run:  
getAEairports(airport.iata.code = 'LIS',
              country.iso.code = NULL,
              api.key = 'key.here') 

## End(Not run)

All airports in France
## Not run: 
getAEairports(airport.iata.code = NULL,
              country.iso.code = 'FR',
              api.key = 'key.here')

## End(Not run)

All airports
## Not run: 
getAEairports(airport.iata.code = NULL,
              country.iso.code = NULL,
              api.key = 'key.here')

## End(Not run)

longwei66/flightR documentation built on May 18, 2019, 2:35 a.m.