African airports

a sf object points of African airports. See data-raw/afrilearndata-creation.R for how the data object is created.

afriairports

Format

Formal class 'sf'; 50 rows 5 columns

  • id id numeric

  • ident ident XXXX

  • type large_airport medium_airport small_airport

  • name airport name

  • elevation_ft elevation in feet

  • continent continent code AF

  • country_name country name

  • iso_country country code two letters capitalised

  • region_name name of region

  • iso_region iso region code incl country XX-YY

  • local_region region code excl country YY

  • municipality municipality

  • scheduled_service scheduled_service 1=yes, 2=no

  • gps_code gps charecter code

  • iata_code iata character code

  • local_code local code

  • home_link web page url

  • wikipedia_link wikipedia url

  • keywords keywords

  • score score

  • last_updated last update

  • geometry coordinates of the point sfc_POINT

Geographical coordinates WGS84 datum (CRS EPSG 4326)

Source

https://ourairports.com/continents/AF/airports.csv

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(afriairports)

  # or read from the csv file which is stored in package as example to work with
  # filename <- system.file("extdata","afriairports.csv", package="afrilearndata", mustWork=TRUE)
  # dfairports <- readr::read_csv(filename)
  # and convert to sf object
  # afriairports <- sf::st_as_sf(dfairports, coords=c("longitude_deg", "latitude_deg"), crs=4326)

  #plot(sf::st_geometry(afriairports))
}

#> Warning: package 'sf' was built under R version 4.0.5
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