Download flight data from Brazil

Download flight data from Brazil’s Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). The data includes detailed information on every international flight to and from Brazil, as well as domestic flights within the country. The data include flight-level information of airports of origin and destination, flight duration, aircraft type, payload, and the number of passengers, and several other variables. A description of all variables included in the data is available at https://www.gov.br/anac/pt-br/assuntos/regulados/empresas-aereas/Instrucoes-para-a-elaboracao-e-apresentacao-das-demonstracoes-contabeis/descricao-de-variaveis.

Usage

read_flights(
  date = 202001,
  type = "basica",
  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 parameter also accepts a vector of dates such as c(202001, 202006, 202012).

type

String. Whether the data set should be of the type basica (flight stage, the default) or combinada (On flight origin and destination - OFOD).

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".

See also

Other download flight data: read_aircraft(), read_aircrafts()

Examples

if (FALSE)  if (interactive()) {
# Read flights data
f201506 <- read_flights(date = 201506)

f2015 <- read_flights(date = 2015)
} # \dontrun{}