flightplot

R Package to Plot the Paths of Flights on the World Map

Installation

Please use the following code to install and load the package:

install.packages("flightplot")
library(flightplot)

If you would like to install the most up-to-date version on GitHub:

if (!require("devtools")) {
  install.packages("devtools")
}

install_github("xmc811/flightplot")
library(flightplot)

Please use GitHub Issues to report bugs or leave any comments and suggestions. Contributions through pull requests are also welcomed!

Examples

The main plot function plot_flights() accepts a two-column dataframe as input, with one column as departure airports and the other as arrival. The values of airports should be IATA 3-letter codes. sample_trips is an example dataframe that can be readily used for plotting. The columns names can be any valid names.

sample_trips

Departure	Arrival
LAX	IAH
IAH	LAX
SFO	IAH
IAH	ORL
ORL	IAH
IAH	DEN
DEN	IAH
...	...

To call the main plot function:

plot_flights(sample_trips)

The map can be set to be cropped to presets:

plot_flights(sample_trips, crop = "48States")

Some additional parameters can be adjusted:

plot_flights(sample_trips,
             crop = "48States", 
             land_color = "#fdae6b", 
             water_color = "#9ecae1", 
             dom_color = "white", 
             int_color = "black", 
             alpha = 1,
             times_as_thickness = FALSE)