get_airports: Query nycflights13-Like Airports Data
Description
This function generates a dataframe similar to the
airports 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_airports(dir = NULL)
Value
A data frame with ~1350 rows and 8 variables:
faa
FAA airport code
name
Usual name of the airport
lat, lon
Location of airport
alt
Altitude, in feet
tz
Timezone offset from GMT/UTC
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
Arguments
dir
An optional character string giving the directory
to save datasets in. By default, datasets will not be saved to file.
See Also
get_flights for flight data,
get_weather for weather data,
get_airlines for airlines 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.