The farsdata R Package

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Installation

You can install the released version of farsdata from CRAN with:

install.packages('farsdata')

# Or below code if above code unable install the package
devtools::install_github('englianhu/farsdata')

Example

You can load the package and read the sample dataset.

library(farsdata)
library(maps)

fars_2013_fn <- make_filename(2013)
fars_2013 <- fars_read(fars_2013_fn) 
dim(fars_2013)
## [1] 30202    50

The data in this package come from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data.

## [[1]]
## # A tibble: 30,202 x 2
##    MONTH  year
##    <int> <dbl>
##  1     1  2013
##  2     1  2013
##  3     1  2013
##  4     1  2013
##  5     1  2013
##  6     1  2013
##  7     1  2013
##  8     1  2013
##  9     1  2013
## 10     1  2013
## # ... with 30,192 more rows

Vignettes

You can refer to below articles for more infoamtion about the package.

• Introduction to farsdata Package
• Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)