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.
You can install whereport from github with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("gvdr/whereport")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