locate_files

Helper function to locate files. Given below params, the function
returns 0 or more files found at location/names given.

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 

locate_files function

<dl><dt>data_dir</dt>
<dd>Super directory where dataset(s) were first downloaded to.</dd>
<dt>type</dt>
<dd>One of 'Collision', 'Casualties', 'Vehicles'; defaults to 'Collision', ignores case.</dd>
<dt>years</dt>
<dd>Years for which data are to be found</dd>
<dt>quiet</dt>
<dd>Print out messages (files found)</dd></dl>

Arguments

Locate a file on disk — locate_files

<dl>

<dt>data_dir</dt>
<dd>Super directory where dataset(s) were first downloaded to.</dd>


<dt>type</dt>
<dd>One of 'Collision', 'Casualties', 'Vehicles'; defaults to 'Collision', ignores case.</dd>


<dt>years</dt>
<dd>Years for which data are to be found</dd>


<dt>quiet</dt>
<dd>Print out messages (files found)</dd>

</dl>

locate_files: Locate a file on disk

Description

Usage

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