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CT127-3-2 Programming for Data Analysis Data Manipulation

Tutorial 9– Data Manipulation (1)

flights data set in the nycflights13 package contains on-time data for all flights that departed NYC in 2013. The
description of columns found in flights data set is given below. Use this dataset and dplyr package to find
answers for the following questions:

Column name(s) Description


year, month, day Date of departure.
dep_time, arr_time Actual departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz.
sched_dep_time, sched_arr_time Scheduled departure and arrival times (format HHMM or HMM), local tz.
dep_delay, arr_delay Departure and arrival delays, in minutes. Negative times represent early departures/arrivals.
carrier Two letter carrier abbreviation.
flight Flight number.
tailnum Plane tail number.
origin, dest Origin and destination.
air_time Amount of time spent in the air, in minutes.
distance Distance between airports, in miles.
hour, minute Time of scheduled departure broken into hour and minutes.
time_hour Scheduled date and hour of the flight as a POSIXct date.

1. Find all flights that had an arrival delay of three or more hours.
2. Find all flights that arrived more than three hours late but didn’t leave late.
3. Find all flights that were delayed by at least an hour but made up over 50 minutes in flight.
4. Find all flights that departed between midnight and 5am.
5. Find the most delayed flights.
6. Find the flights travelled the farthest. Hint: use air_time column.
7. Find the flights travelled the shortest.
8. Show the following details for each flight: flight number, origin and destination.
9. Show the following details for each flight travelled in June 2013: flight number, Origin and
destination.
10. Find the carrier that has the maximum departure delay on 1st January 2013.

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