airports: Airport metadata

In nycflights13: Flights that Departed NYC in 2013

Description

Useful metadata about airports.

Usage

airports

Format

A data frame with columns:

faa

FAA airport code.

name

Usual name of the aiport.

lat, lon

Location of airport.

alt

Altitude, in feet.

tz

Timezone offset from GMT.

dst

Daylight savings time zone. A = Standard US DST: starts on the second Sunday of March, ends on the first Sunday of November. U = unknown. N = no dst.

tzone

IANA time zone, as determined by GeoNames webservice.

Source

https://openflights.org/data.html, downloaded 2014-06-27

Examples

airports

if (require("dplyr")) {

airports %>% rename(dest = faa) %>% semi_join(flights)
flights %>% anti_join(airports %>% rename(dest = faa))
airports %>% rename(origin = faa) %>% semi_join(flights)

}

Example output

# A tibble: 1,458 x 8
   faa   name                       lat    lon   alt    tz dst   tzone          
   <chr> <chr>                    <dbl>  <dbl> <int> <dbl> <chr> <chr>          
 1 04G   Lansdowne Airport         41.1  -80.6  1044    -5 A     America/New_Yo~
 2 06A   Moton Field Municipal A~  32.5  -85.7   264    -6 A     America/Chicago
 3 06C   Schaumburg Regional       42.0  -88.1   801    -6 A     America/Chicago
 4 06N   Randall Airport           41.4  -74.4   523    -5 A     America/New_Yo~
 5 09J   Jekyll Island Airport     31.1  -81.4    11    -5 A     America/New_Yo~
 6 0A9   Elizabethton Municipal ~  36.4  -82.2  1593    -5 A     America/New_Yo~
 7 0G6   Williams County Airport   41.5  -84.5   730    -5 A     America/New_Yo~
 8 0G7   Finger Lakes Regional A~  42.9  -76.8   492    -5 A     America/New_Yo~
 9 0P2   Shoestring Aviation Air~  39.8  -76.6  1000    -5 U     America/New_Yo~
10 0S9   Jefferson County Intl     48.1 -123.    108    -8 A     America/Los_An~
# ... with 1,448 more rows
Loading required package: dplyr

Attaching package: 'dplyr'

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    filter, lag

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

Joining, by = "dest"
Joining, by = "dest"
Joining, by = "origin"
# A tibble: 3 x 8
  origin name                  lat   lon   alt    tz dst   tzone           
  <chr>  <chr>               <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <chr> <chr>           
1 EWR    Newark Liberty Intl  40.7 -74.2    18    -5 A     America/New_York
2 JFK    John F Kennedy Intl  40.6 -73.8    13    -5 A     America/New_York
3 LGA    La Guardia           40.8 -73.9    22    -5 A     America/New_York

nycflights13 documentation built on April 12, 2021, 5:06 p.m.