| Title: | Flights that Departed NYC in 2013 | 
| Version: | 1.0.2 | 
| Description: | Airline on-time data for all flights departing NYC in 2013. Also includes useful 'metadata' on airlines, airports, weather, and planes. | 
| License: | CC0 | 
| URL: | https://github.com/hadley/nycflights13 | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/hadley/nycflights13/issues | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.2) | 
| Imports: | tibble | 
| Suggests: | dplyr | 
| Encoding: | UTF-8 | 
| LazyData: | true | 
| LazyDataCompression: | bzip2 | 
| RoxygenNote: | 7.1.1 | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Packaged: | 2021-04-12 12:50:57 UTC; hadley | 
| Author: | Hadley Wickham [aut, cre], RStudio [cph] | 
| Maintainer: | Hadley Wickham <hadley@rstudio.com> | 
| Repository: | CRAN | 
| Date/Publication: | 2021-04-12 16:00:08 UTC | 
Airline names.
Description
Look up airline names from their carrier codes.
Usage
airlines
Format
Data frame with columns
- carrier
- Two letter abbreviation. 
- name
- Full name. 
Source
https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236
Examples
  airlines
Airport metadata
Description
Useful metadata about airports.
Usage
airports
Format
A data frame with columns:
- faa
- FAA airport code. 
- name
- Usual name of the aiport. 
- lat, lon
- Location of airport. 
- alt
- Altitude, in feet. 
- tz
- Timezone offset from GMT. 
- 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. 
Source
https://openflights.org/data.html, downloaded 2014-06-27
Examples
airports
if (require("dplyr")) {
airports %>% rename(dest = faa) %>% semi_join(flights)
flights %>% anti_join(airports %>% rename(dest = faa))
airports %>% rename(origin = faa) %>% semi_join(flights)
}
Flights data
Description
On-time data for all flights that departed NYC (i.e. JFK, LGA or EWR) in 2013.
Usage
flights
Format
Data frame with columns
- year, month, day
- Date of departure. 
- dep_time, arr_time
- Actual departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz. 
- sched_dep_time, sched_arr_time
- Scheduled departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz. 
- dep_delay, arr_delay
- Departure and arrival delays, in minutes. Negative times represent early departures/arrivals. 
- carrier
- Two letter carrier abbreviation. See - airlinesto get name.
- flight
- Flight number. 
- tailnum
- Plane tail number. See - planesfor additional metadata.
- origin, dest
- Origin and destination. See - airportsfor additional metadata.
- air_time
- Amount of time spent in the air, in minutes. 
- distance
- Distance between airports, in miles. 
- hour, minute
- Time of scheduled departure broken into hour and minutes. 
- time_hour
- Scheduled date and hour of the flight as a - POSIXctdate. Along with- origin, can be used to join flights data to- weatherdata.
Source
RITA, Bureau of transportation statistics, https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236
Plane metadata.
Description
Plane metadata for all plane tailnumbers found in the FAA aircraft registry. American Airways (AA) and Envoy Air (MQ) report fleet numbers rather than tail numbers so can't be matched.
Usage
planes
Format
A data frame with columns:
- tailnum
- Tail number. 
- year
- Year manufactured. 
- type
- Type of plane. 
- manufacturer, model
- Manufacturer and model. 
- engines, seats
- Number of engines and seats. 
- speed
- Average cruising speed in mph. 
- engine
- Type of engine. 
Source
FAA Aircraft registry, https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/releasable_aircraft_download/
Examples
planes
if (require("dplyr")) {
# Flights that don't have plane metadata
flights %>% anti_join(planes, "tailnum")
}
Hourly weather data
Description
Hourly meterological data for LGA, JFK and EWR.
Usage
weather
Format
A data frame with columns:
- origin
- Weather station. Named - originto facilitate merging with- flightsdata.
- year, month, day, hour
- Time of recording. 
- temp, dewp
- Temperature and dewpoint in F. 
- humid
- Relative humidity. 
- wind_dir, wind_speed, wind_gust
- Wind direction (in degrees), speed and gust speed (in mph). 
- precip
- Precipitation, in inches. 
- pressure
- Sea level pressure in millibars. 
- visib
- Visibility in miles. 
- time_hour
- Date and hour of the recording as a - POSIXctdate.
Source
ASOS download from Iowa Environmental Mesonet, https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml.