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