README.md

In simonpcouch/dcflights21: Out-bound flights from DC-serving airports in 2021

dcflights21

{dcflights21} is an R data-only package supplying data on out-bound flights from airports serving Washington, DC in 2021.

You can install the package with the following lines

# install.packages("pak")

pak::pak("simonpcouch/dcflights21")

Preview

The package exports one tibble, dcflights21, with data on flight departures, weather, airline, airport, and the flown plane. The dataset consists of several different data types with varying degrees of missingness.

library(dcflights21)

data(dcflights21)

str(dcflights21)

## Classes 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame':    208141 obs. of  12 variables:
##  $ airline    : chr  "Delta Air Lines Inc." "SkyWest Airlines Inc." "American Airlines Inc." "Endeavor Air Inc." ...
##  $ flight     : Factor w/ 2186 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 558 725 687 932 649 69 327 490 273 339 ...
##  $ origin     : Factor w/ 3 levels "BWI","DCA","IAD": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
##  $ destination: Factor w/ 116 levels "ABQ","ACK","AGS",..: 5 80 23 32 29 36 30 63 68 5 ...
##  $ date       : Date, format: "2021-01-01" "2021-01-01" ...
##  $ hour       : num  6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 ...
##  $ dep_delay  : num  -11 -10 -8 2 -1 0 -12 -4 -3 -6 ...
##  $ plane      : Factor w/ 4597 levels "215NV","217NV",..: 1401 2824 4130 982 3115 2650 4434 2708 4348 4039 ...
##  $ duration   : num  100 99 65 67 214 126 212 114 133 99 ...
##  $ wind_speed : num  2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3 ...
##  $ visibility : num  10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 ...
##  $ plane_year : int  2001 2004 2012 2014 2008 2017 2014 2019 2013 2018 ...

Data Sources

For the most part, the data in this package can be downloaded, processed, packaged, and documented with the following lines:

# install.packages("anyflights")

library(anyflights)

dcflights21 <- anyflights(station = c("BWI", "DCA", "IAD"), year = 2021)

as_flights_package(dcflights21)

The {anyflights} documentation outlines data sources in detail. Changes to the output of the above lines are reproduced in data-raw/tidy.R.

simonpcouch/dcflights21 documentation built on May 14, 2022, 4:53 p.m.