ontime: Ontime Flight Data

Description

Data set detailing on-time performance of national US flights in January 2015. This data is a subset of the data provided by the US Department of Transportation. The full data as well as archived or more recent data is available for download from http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time.

Usage

ontime

Arguments

Format

A data frame consisting of the variables

FlightDate: a date variable of the day of the flight
UniqueCarrier: factor variable of the carrier (using the two letter abbreviation)
FlightNum: numeric variable of the flight number
CRSDepTime: scheduled departure time in hhmm format
DepTime: actual departure time in hhmm format
CRSArrTime: scheduled arrival time in hhmm format
ArrTime: actual arrival time in hhmm format
TaxiOut: numeric variable of the taxi out time in minutes
TaxiIn: numeric variable of the taxi in time in minutes
ArrDelay: Arrival delay, in Minutes
DepDelay: Departure delay, in Minutes
CarrierDelay: Carrier Delay, in Minutes
WeatherDelay: Weather Delay, in Minutes
NASDelay: National Air System Delay, in Minutes
SecurityDelay: Security Delay, in Minutes
LateAircraftDelay: Late Aircraft Delay, in Minutes

References

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time

Examples

Run this code

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(ontime, aes(UniqueCarrier, TaxiIn + TaxiOut)) +
  geom_lv(aes(fill = ..LV..)) +
  scale_fill_lv() +
  scale_y_sqrt() +
  theme_bw()

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