In mikemcclendon/farsfunctions: NHTSA FARS Functions

This package is intended to read in and visualize incidents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data. The package contains five functions. However, 3 are of primary use for interrogating data. Those will be explained below. Please note: package assumes FARS data files in the standard format and naming convention are available in the user's working directory.

fars_summarize_years

This function returns a monthly summary of incidents. It takes a year in the form of an integer or string as an argument and then uses that value to read in a CSV as a tbl_df for data of that given year and and returns a monthly summary of the observations. Usage below.

fars_read_years

This function returns the month and year corresponding to each FARS observation. It takes a year in the form of an integer or string as an argument and then uses that value to read in a CSV as a tbl_df for data of that given year and returns the month and year corresponding to each observation.

fars_map_state

Return a map plot of incidents. This is a function that takes a state number and year in the form of an integer or string as an argument and then uses that value to generate a map plot of observations for that state and year.

mikemcclendon/farsfunctions documentation built on May 5, 2019, 5:53 p.m.