Flights data

Description

On-time data for a random sample of flights that departed NYC (i.e. JFK, LGA or EWR) in 2013.

nycflights

A tbl_df with 32,735 rows and 16 variables:

year,month,day: Date of departure.
dep_time,arr_time: Departure and arrival times, local tz.
dep_delay,arr_delay: Departure and arrival delays, in minutes. Negative times represent early departures/arrivals.
hour,minute: Time of departure broken in to hour and minutes.
carrier: Two letter carrier abbreviation. See airlines in the nycflights13 package for more information or google the airline code.
tailnum: Plane tail number.
flight: Flight number.
origin,dest: Origin and destination. See airports in the nycflights13 package for more information or google airport the code.
air_time: Amount of time spent in the air.
distance: Distance flown.

Hadley Wickham (2014). nycflights13: Data about flights departing NYC in 2013. R package version 0.1.