In megaquant/fars: FARS maps and summary functions

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INTRODUCTION

The fars package uses data 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 provides several functions to help you analyze and map this data. You can read more about the data by navigating to the following website:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars

USAGE

The fars data has already been downloaded and included in this package.

The workflow you should follow is:

• Run the function fars_summarize_years to count the nunber of motor vehicle fatal injuries for each month of each year
• Run the function fars_map_state to see a graphical map of the state that shows the location of motor vehicle fatalities in the year

OUTPUT OF fars_summarize_years

head(fars::fars_summarize_years(2013:2015))

OUTPUT OF fars_map_state

fars::fars_map_state(1,2015)

Please consult the package help pages for the usage, arguments, and details of each function.

megaquant/fars documentation built on June 1, 2019, 3:57 a.m.