make_aircraft {himach}

Make aircraft data from minimum dataset

Description

make_aircraft ensures a minimum set of variables describing aircraft

Usage

make_aircraft(ac = NA, sound_kph = himach::mach_kph, warn = TRUE)

Arguments

ac

Dataframe containing the minimum fields, or NA (default)

sound_kph

Speed of sound used to convert from Mach to kph, default mach_kph=1062 at a suitable altitude.

warn

Warn if no ac supplied, so default set is used. Default TRUE.

Details

This function provides a test set of aircraft if necessary and adds variables to a minimal set of data to give all the information that will be needed.

This minimal set needs to have the following fields:

• id, type: a very short, and longer text identifier for this aircraft

• over_sea_M, over_land_M: the eponymous two speeds, given as a Mach number

• accel_Mpm: acceleration in Mach per minute between these two

• arrdep_kph: the speed on arrival and departure from airports, given in km per hour

• range_km: range in km

An attribute is set to help keep track of where the aircraft data came from (and whether a new cache is needed). If the aircraftSet attribute of the ac parameter is not set, the set is treated as 'disposable'.

For more details see the help vignette: vignette("SupersonicRouting", package = "himach")

Value

Dataframe with at least 11 variables describing the performance of one or more aircraft

Examples

# do minimal version (we know it will use the default so turn off warning)
ac <- make_aircraft(warn = FALSE)

# on-the-fly example
ac <- data.frame(id = "test", type = "test aircraft",
                 over_sea_M = 2.0, over_land_M = 0.9, accel_Mpm = 0.2,
                 arrdep_kph = 300, range_km = 6000, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
ac <- make_aircraft(ac, warn = FALSE)

## Not run: 
# example for your own data
aircraft <- utils::read.csv("data/aircraft.csv", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
aircraft <- make_aircraft(aircraft)
# strongly recommended to record the file name for later reference
attr(aircraft, "aircraftSet") <- "aircraft.csv"

## End(Not run)