| Title: | Flights and Other Useful Metadata for NYC Outbound Flights in 2023 |
| Version: | 0.2.0 |
| Description: | Updating the now 10-year-old 'nycflights13' data package. It contains information about all flights that departed from the three main New York City airports in 2023 and metadata on airlines, airports, weather, and planes. |
| License: | CC0 |
| URL: | https://moderndive.github.io/nycflights23/, https://github.com/moderndive/nycflights23/ |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/moderndive/nycflights23/issues/ |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Suggests: | anyflights |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| LazyDataCompression: | bzip2 |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.3.1 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2025-04-18 17:28:31 UTC; chesterismay |
| Author: | Chester Ismay 
[aut, cre],
Simon P. Couch [aut],
Hadley Wickham [aut],
RStudio [cph],
Jay Lee [ctb],
Dennis Irorere [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Chester Ismay <chester.ismay@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2025-04-19 06:20:06 UTC |
Airline names.
Description
Look up airline names from their carrier codes.
Format
A data frame with columns:
- carrier
Two letter abbreviation.
- name
Full name.
Source
https://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236
Airport metadata
Description
Useful metadata about airports.
Format
A data frame with columns:
- 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.
Source
Flights data
Description
On-time data for all flights that departed from the given airports.
Format
A data frame with columns:
- year, month, day
Date of departure.
- dep_time, arr_time
Actual departure and arrival times, UTC.
- sched_dep_time, sched_arr_time
Scheduled departure and arrival times, UTC.
- dep_delay, arr_delay
Departure and arrival delays, in minutes. Negative times represent early departures/arrivals.
- hour, minute
Time of scheduled departure broken into hour and minutes.
- carrier
Two letter carrier abbreviation. See
get_airlinesto get the full name.- tailnum
Plane tail number.
- flight
Flight number.
- origin, dest
Origin and destination airport. See
get_airportsfor additional metadata.- air_time
Amount of time spent in the air, in minutes.
- distance
Distance between airports, in miles.
- time_hour
Scheduled date and hour of the flight as a
POSIXctdate. Along withorigin, can be used to join flights data to weather data.
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 tail numbers 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.
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
Hourly weather data
Description
Hourly meteorological data.
Format
A data frame with columns
- origin
Weather station. Named
originto facilitate merging with flights data.- year, month, day, hour
Time of recording, UTC.
- 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, UTC.
Source
ASOS download from Iowa Environmental Mesonet, https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml.