check_input_file

Tools to help download, process and analyse the UK road collision data collected using the
'STATS19' form. The datasets are provided as 'CSV' files with detailed road safety information about the
circumstances of car crashes and other incidents on the roads resulting in casualties in Great Britain
from 1979 to present. Tables are available on 'colissions' with the circumstances (e.g. speed limit
of road), information about 'vehicles' involved (e.g. type of vehicle), and 'casualties' (e.g. age).
The statistics relate only to events on public roads that were reported
to the police, and subsequently recorded, using the 'STATS19' collision reporting form. See
the Department for Transport website
<https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-safety-data> for more
information on these datasets.
The package is described in a paper in the Journal of Open Source Software
(Lovelace et al. 2019) <doi:10.21105/joss.01181>.
See
Gilardi et al. (2022) <doi:10.1111/rssa.12823>,
Vidal-Tortosa et al. (2021) <doi:10.1016/j.jth.2021.101291>, and
Tait et al. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.aap.2022.106895> for examples of how the data can be used for
methodological and empirical road safety research.

Robin Lovelace

stats19

Work with Open Road Traffic Casualty Data from Great Britain

Malcolm Morgan

Layik Hama

Mark Padgham

David Ranzolin

Adam Sparks

Ivo Wengraf

RAC Foundation 

check_input_file function

<dl><dt>filename</dt>
<dd>Character string of the filename of the .csv to read, if this is given, type and
years determine whether there is a target to read, otherwise disk scan would be needed.</dd>
<dt>type</dt>
<dd>The type of file to be downloaded (e.g. 'collisions', 'casualty' or
'vehicles'). Not case sensitive and searches using regular expressions ('acc' will work).</dd>
<dt>data_dir</dt>
<dd>Where sets of downloaded data would be found.</dd>
<dt>year</dt>
<dd>Single year for which data are to be read</dd></dl>

Arguments

Local helper to be reused. — check_input_file

<dl>

<dt>filename</dt>
<dd>Character string of the filename of the .csv to read, if this is given, type and
years determine whether there is a target to read, otherwise disk scan would be needed.</dd>


<dt>type</dt>
<dd>The type of file to be downloaded (e.g. 'collisions', 'casualty' or
'vehicles'). Not case sensitive and searches using regular expressions ('acc' will work).</dd>


<dt>data_dir</dt>
<dd>Where sets of downloaded data would be found.</dd>


<dt>year</dt>
<dd>Single year for which data are to be read</dd>

</dl>

Local helper to be reused.

check_input_file: Local helper to be reused.

Description

Usage

Arguments