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.
read_flights(
date = 202001,
type = "basica",
showProgress = TRUE,
select = NULL,
cache = TRUE
)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, 20206, 202012).
String. Whether the data set should be of the type basica
(flight stage, the default) or combinada (On flight origin and
destination - OFOD).
Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress.
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.
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.
A "data.table" "data.frame" object. All columns are returned with
class of type "character".
Other download flight data:
read_aircrafts()
if (FALSE) if (interactive()) {
# Read flights data
f201506 <- read_flights(date = 201506)
f2015 <- read_flights(date = 2015)
}