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nycflights13 1.0.0

• weather$time_hour and flights$time_hour are now stored in the America/New_York timezone (#19).

• weather data updated from latest Iowa State mesonet (@rmcd1024, #24). wind_gust is now correctly captured from the underlying data, rather than being a copy of wind_speed. precip is better captures the hourly preciptation (which tends to be recorded at 51 minutes past the hour) (#27)

nycflights13 0.2.2

• Import function from tibble to suppress R CMD check NOTE.

nycflights13 0.2.1

• nycflights imports tibble so you get nice printing even when no other tidyverse package is loaded.

• airports now has a tzone column that contains the IANA time zone for the airport (#15).

nycflights13 0.2.0

• airlines: carrier columns are characters instead of factors (#2).

• airports: duplicate entry for BFT removed (#7).

• flights:

  • new time_hour variable combines year, month, day, and hour into a single variable (#11).

  • new sched_dep_time and sched_arr_time variables give scheduled departure and arrival times - these are more appropriate for connecting to weather data. hour and minute are now computed from the scheduled departure time, not the actual departure time.

  • missing tailnum now recorded as NA, not "" (#10).

• weather:

  • Includes weather data for all airports.

  • New time_hour variable combines year, month, day, hour into a single POSIXct variable.

  • Saved as ungrouped.

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