nycflights13 (version 1.0.1)

airports: 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.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
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)

}
# }