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.
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_flightsthat will be used to subset the output to only include relevant carriers/planes. If not supplied, all carriers/planes will be returned.
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
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))