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whereport

Where is that airport?

The goal of whereport is to provide a very light function to retrieve geographical information from airport’s IATA codes.

whereport? thereport! An official candidate to be the package with the worst pun-in-title.

Installation

You can install whereport from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("gvdr/whereport")

Example

whereport goes well with ggmap. You can do something like:

library(dplyr)
library(whereport)
library(ggmap)

where_iata(c("YVR","CHC")) %>%
  mutate_geocode(Location_served) %>%
  select(Airport_name, lon, lat)

and get a nice logitude langitude thingy ready for some spatial graphviz.

#> Information from URL : http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Christchurch,%20New%20Zealand&sensor=false
#> Information from URL : http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Vancouver,%20British%20Columbia,%20Canada&sensor=false
#>                         Airport_name       lon       lat
#> 1 Christchurch International Airport  172.6362 -43.53205
#> 2    Vancouver International Airport -123.1207  49.28273

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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