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Download data on airfares flights in Brazil

Source: R/read_airfares.R
read_airfares.Rd

Download data on air fares of domestic and international flights in Brazil. The data is collected by Brazil’s Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). A description of all variables included in the data for domestic airfares is available at https://www.anac.gov.br/acesso-a-informacao/dados-abertos/areas-de-atuacao/voos-e-operacoes-aereas/tarifas-aereas-domesticas/46-tarifas-aereas-domesticas. A description of all variables included in the data for international airfares is available at https://www.gov.br/anac/pt-br/assuntos/dados-e-estatisticas/microdados-de-tarifas-aereas-comercializadas.

Usage

read_airfares(
  date = 202001,
  domestic = TRUE,
  showProgress = TRUE,
  select = NULL,
  cache = TRUE
)

Arguments

date

Numeric. Date of the data in the format yyyymm. Defaults to 202001. To download the data for all months in a year, the user can pass a 4-digit year input yyyy. The function also accepts a vector of dates, like c(202201, 202301) or c(2022, 2024).

domestic

Logical. Defaults to TRUE download airfares of domestic flights. If FALSE, the function downloads airfares of international flights.

showProgress

Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress.

select

A vector of column names or positions to keep. The rest of the columns are not read. The order that the columns passed determines the order of the columns in the result.

cache

Logical. Whether the function should read cached data downloaded previously. Defaults to TRUE. If FALSE, the function will always download the data and overwrite cached data.

Value

A "data.table" "data.frame" object. All columns are returned with class of type "character".

Examples

if (FALSE)  if (interactive()) {
# Read air fare data
af_201506 <- read_airfares(date = 201506, domestic = TRUE)

af_2015 <- read_airfares(date = 2015, domestic = TRUE)
} # \dontrun{}