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.

get_airports(dir = NULL)

Arguments

dir

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

Source

https://openflights.org/data.html

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

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.

Examples


# grab airports data
if (FALSE) get_airports()