openSkies (version 1.0.0)

getIntervalFlights: Retrieve all flights registered during a time interval

Description

Retrieves the list of all flights registered for any aircraft during a given time interval. Beginning and end times must be specified as date-time strings in any format that can be unambiguously converted to POSIXct (such as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS).

Usage

getIntervalFlights(startTime, endTime, timeZone=Sys.timezone(), username=NULL, 
                   password=NULL)

Arguments

startTime

date-time string indicating the starting time of the interval for which flights should be retrieved. Must be in a format that can be unambiguously converted into POSIXct time. Valid examples are \"2011-03-27 01:30:00\" and \"2011/03/27 01:30:00\".

endTime

date-time string indicating the ending time of the interval for which flights should be retrieved. Must be in a format that can be unambiguously converted into POSIXct time. Valid examples are \"2011-03-28 01:30:00\" and \"2011/03/28 01:30:00\".

timeZone

string with the name of the time zone for startTime and endTime. For details on supported time zones, see help(timezones). By default, the system time zone is used.

username

optional string with the username to use for authentication for the OpenSky API. By default, no authentication is performed.

password

optional string with the password to use for authentication for the OpenSky API. By default, no authentication is performed.

Value

A list of objects of class openSkiesFlight, where each object represents a flight that was registered during the specified time interval. See the openSkiesFlight documentation for details on the fields for the class.

References

https://opensky-network.org/apidoc/rest.html

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Obtain a list with information for all the flights registered during the 16th
# of November, 2019 between 9 AM and 10 AM, London time.

flights <- getIntervalFlights(startTime="2019-11-16 09:00:00", 
endTime="2019-11-16 10:00:00", timeZone="Europe/London")

# Count the number of registered flights.

if(interactive()){
length(flights)
}
# }