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R package anyflights by simonpcouch — release notes from GitHub.

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A nycflights13 generator whose recent work is all about the data being right.

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◆Current state
anyflights builds nycflights13-style datasets for any US airport and year, downloading flight, weather, airline, airport, and plane tables and optionally packaging them. The four visible releases span 2022 to 2025 and are dominated by keeping those downloads working. The most recent fixes a timezone leak and gaps in hourly weather data.
◆Where it's heading
The function surface has been stable since 0.3; everything since concerns the fragility of the upstream sources. Broken URLs for airline data, download failures needing a session-timeout hint, planes data that stopped resolving, and weather values recorded only once an hour have each taken a release. Contributions come from teaching-adjacent users, which fits a package whose main use is generating course datasets.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to follow another upstream data-source change rather than to add a table or an argument.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Weather output pinned to GMT and hourly gaps filled

    Output that changed with the user's local timezone is a reproducibility problem for a package built to generate teaching datasets. Filling the between-hours weather values addresses the other half of the same complaint.

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  2. 2y ago

    Planes data downloads restored

    One of the five tables had stopped downloading. For a package that is entirely a download pipeline, restoring a source is the substance of the release, not the documentation typo listed above it.

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  3. 4y ago

    Airline data URLs fixed and CI moved to GitHub Actions

    URL repair plus a CI migration - maintenance that keeps the package functioning without changing what it produces.

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  4. 4y ago

    Progress reporting and faster weather retrieval

    The last release to add anything to the interface: progress updates on long downloads, faster weather retrieval, and generated data packages that pass R CMD check. Everything after it is repair.

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