| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Flights that departed Houston in 2011 |
| Version: | 0.1 |
| Author: | Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com> |
| Maintainer: | Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com> |
| License: | CC0 |
| Description: | A data only package containing commercial domestic flights that departed Houston (IAH and HOU) in 2011. |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.10) |
| LazyData: | true |
| Packaged: | 2013-12-06 21:42:40 UTC; hadley |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2013-12-07 01:00:06 |
Houston flights data
Description
This dataset contains all flights departing from Houston airports IAH (George Bush Intercontinental) and HOU (Houston Hobby). The data comes from the Research and Innovation Technology Administration at the Bureau of Transporation statistics: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DatabaseInfo.asp?DB_ID=120&Link=0
Usage
hflights
Format
A data frame with 227,496 rows and 21 columns.
Details
src_hflights caches a SQLite version of the data in
a standard location for use in examples.
Variables
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Year,Month,DayofMonth: date of departure -
DayOfWeek: day of week of departure (useful for removing weekend effects) -
DepTime,ArrTime: departure and arrival times (in local time, hhmm) -
UniqueCarrier: unique abbreviation for a carrier -
FlightNum: flight number -
TailNum: airplane tail number -
ActualElapsedTime: elapsed time of flight, in minutes -
AirTime: flight time, in minutes -
ArrDelay,DepDelay: arrival and departure delays, in minutes -
Origin,Destorigin and destination airport codes -
Distance: distance of flight, in miles -
TaxiIn,TaxiOut: taxi in and out times in minutes -
Cancelled: cancelled indicator: 1 = Yes, 0 = No -
CancellationCode: reason for cancellation: A = carrier, B = weather, C = national air system, D = security -
Diverted: diverted indicator: 1 = Yes, 0 = No
Examples
head(hflights)