--- title: "Download airlines data from the web" authors: Suman Sahil and Steve Simon date: Created 2020-07-06 output: html_document knit: (function(inputFile, encoding) { rmarkdown::render(inputFile, encoding = encoding, output_dir = "../results", output_format = "all") }) --- This program was last modified on `r Sys.Date()`. This program downloads a data file from the web and stores it locally in csv format. ```{r setup} suppressMessages(suppressWarnings(library(magrittr))) suppressMessages(suppressWarnings(library(stringr))) ``` ```{r download} "https://dasl.datadescription.com/download/data/3048" %>% readLines %>% str_remove("^.*? ") %>% str_replace_all("\t", ",") -> raw_data raw_data[1] <- "Airline,b2017,b2016,r2017,r2016" csv_name <- "../data/airlines.csv" writeLines(raw_data, csv_name) ```