Download airports data from Brazil — read

Download data of all airports and aerodromes registered in Brazil’s Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). Data source: https://www.gov.br/anac/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/dados-abertos/areas-de-atuacao/aerodromos. The data dictionary for public airports can be found at https://www.anac.gov.br/acesso-a-informacao/dados-abertos/areas-de-atuacao/aerodromos/lista-de-aerodromos-publicos-v2/70-lista-de-aerodromos-publicos-v2. The data dictionary for private airports can be found at https://www.anac.gov.br/acesso-a-informacao/dados-abertos/areas-de-atuacao/aerodromos/lista-de-aerodromos-privados-v2.

Usage

read_airports(type = "all", showProgress = TRUE, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

type: String. Whether the function should download data on all, public or private airports. Defaults to all, returning fewer columns. Downloading public and private airports separately will return the full set of columns available for each of those data sets.
showProgress: Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress.
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.

Examples

if (FALSE)  if (interactive()) {
# Read airports data
all_airports <- read_airports(type = 'all')

public_airports <- read_airports(type = 'public')

private_airports <- read_airports(type = 'private')
} # \dontrun{}