R Observatory: Metrics for flightsbr version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

flightsbr

1.2.0Package record

Download Flight and Airport Data from Brazil

0packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

92.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rafael H. M. PereiraCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Ipea - Institute for Applied Economic Research

Download flight and airport data from Brazil’s Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) https://www.gov.br/anac/pt-br. The data covers detailed information on aircraft, airports, and airport operations registered with ANAC. It also includes data on airfares, all international flights to and from Brazil, and domestic flights within the country.

Changes in 1.2.0

Minor changes:
When the package tries to download multiples but fails with a few ones, the package now only try to download again the files that failed in the first attempt.
The function read_aircrafts() now throws an error, as it has been deprecated in favor of read_aircraft() simply to fix a typo in the function name. The behavior and outputs are identical.
read_airfares() and read_flights() now cache the list of dates/files available from ANAC to a session-scoped temp file, governed by the existing cache parameter. This avoids re-scraping ANAC's website on every single call within the same R session.
Files are now downloaded using httr2::req_perform_parallel(), replacing curl::multi_download().
Bug fixes:
Fixed error in reading data from ANAC website. Fixed #52 and #51.
Fixed the select parameter in read_airfares(), which was silently ignored and had no effect on the columns returned. It now behaves the same way as select in read_flights().
Fixed get_airfares_dates_available() (used internally by read_airfares()) to retry requests to ANAC that fail transiently (timeouts, connection errors, HTTP 429/503) instead of silently dropping the affected year and returning an incomplete list of available dates.
Fixed get_airfares_dates_available() and latest_airfares_date() to fail cleanly with NULL when ANAC can't be reached, instead of occasionally producing a nonsensical "data available between Inf and -Inf" error, or -Inf as a date.
Replaced a brittle hardcoded filename-length check (nchar == 55) used to filter valid international airfare files listed by ANAC with an explicit filename-pattern check, and added the equivalent check to the domestic airfare listing (which previously had no filter at all). This guards against malformed, duplicate, or misplaced files that ANAC occasionally publishes (e.g. typo'd names, files uploaded to the wrong year, re-uploads with (1) appended) corrupting the list of available dates.
New contributors

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Arthur Bazolli

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("flightsbr", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ipea/flightsbr")

Development version from ipea/flightsbr. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-flightsbr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-flightsbr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-flightsbr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 302 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27 (19 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%23 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,469 · ~13/day · ~399/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50230 days

1.3K90 days

4.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on435 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ipea/flightsbr ↗Organization: ipea

44Stars

9Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

306Commits

3Commit identities

rstatsdatarstats-packageaviation-datarbrazil

306 commits · Last activity 2026-08-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-25 · 402026-09-03 · 44

Earlier repositories

github.com/ipeagit/flightsbr · last recorded on 2026-08-16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ipea/flightsbr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-22 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-08-17
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing flightsbr adds 42 packages (26 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (9)

archive data.table fs httr2 lifecycle parzer pbapply janitor rvest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

dplyr ggplot2 rmarkdown knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Rafael H. M. Pereira

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2022)

Arthur Bazolli

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Ipea - Institute for Applied Economic Research

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (14)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.2.0Latest
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2026-08-21 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-07-25
1.1.1
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2025-07-25 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-07-01
requires archived package 'parzer'
1.1.0
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2025-05-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_aircrafts_dates_available

added 2 exports
get_aircraft_dates_available, read_aircraft
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.0
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2024-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
check_input_date_format, latest_airfares_date
0.5.0
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2024-09-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.1
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2024-04-23 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2023-12-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_aircrafts_dates_available
0.3.0
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2023-06-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.1
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2022-11-27 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2022-05-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_airfares_dates_available, read_airfares

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R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.2
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2022-03-18 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2022-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
check_date, get_airport_movement_dates_available, get_flight_dates_available
0.1.0
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2022-02-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 5 exports
latest_flights_date, read_aircrafts, read_airport_movements, read_airports, read_flights
0.0.1
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2022-01-21
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-21
Total releases: 14 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("flightsbr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.31219/osf.io/jdv7u.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for flightsbr version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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