anyflights (version 0.3.4)

get_airlines: Query nycflights13-Like Airlines Data

Description

This function generates a dataframe similar to the airlines dataset from nycflights13 for any US airports and time frame. Please note that, even with a strong internet connection, this function may take several minutes to download relevant data.

Usage

get_airlines(dir = NULL, flights_data = NULL)

Value

A data frame with <2k rows and 2 variables:

carrier

Two or three length letter or number abbreviation. In cases whgere the the Unique Carrier Code has been use more than once, a suffix is added. ex. ML, ML (1). This list matches the `Reporting_Airline` field in the BTS documentation for the flights data set

name

Full name

Arguments

dir

An optional character string giving the directory to save datasets in. By default, datasets will not be saved to file.

flights_data

Optional---either a filepath as a character string or a dataframe outputted by get_flights that will be used to subset the output to only include relevant carriers/planes. If not supplied, all carriers/planes will be returned.

See Also

get_flights for flight data, get_weather for weather data, get_airports for airports data, get_planes for planes data, or anyflights for a wrapper function.

Use the as_flights_package function to convert this dataset to a data-only package.

Examples

# run with defaults
if (FALSE) get_airlines()

# if you'd like to only return the airline 
# abbreviations only for airlines that appear in 
# \code{flights}, query your flights dataset first, 
# and then supply it as a flights_data argument
if (FALSE) get_airlines(flights_data = get_flights("PDX", 2018, 6))