install.packages("nycflights13", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/")
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library(nycflights13)
library(dplyr)
## Warning: package 'dplyr' was built under R version 4.4.3
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## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
## 
##     filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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##     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

Question 1

dim(flights)
## [1] 336776     19

Question 2

sortf <- arrange(flights, desc(dep_delay)) 
select(sortf, carrier, flight, tailnum, everything())
## # A tibble: 336,776 × 19
##    carrier flight tailnum  year month   day dep_time sched_dep_time dep_delay
##    <chr>    <int> <chr>   <int> <int> <int>    <int>          <int>     <dbl>
##  1 HA          51 N384HA   2013     1     9      641            900      1301
##  2 MQ        3535 N504MQ   2013     6    15     1432           1935      1137
##  3 MQ        3695 N517MQ   2013     1    10     1121           1635      1126
##  4 AA         177 N338AA   2013     9    20     1139           1845      1014
##  5 MQ        3075 N665MQ   2013     7    22      845           1600      1005
##  6 DL        2391 N959DL   2013     4    10     1100           1900       960
##  7 DL        2119 N927DA   2013     3    17     2321            810       911
##  8 DL        2007 N3762Y   2013     6    27      959           1900       899
##  9 DL        2047 N6716C   2013     7    22     2257            759       898
## 10 AA         172 N5DMAA   2013    12     5      756           1700       896
## # ℹ 336,766 more rows
## # ℹ 10 more variables: arr_time <int>, sched_arr_time <int>, arr_delay <dbl>,
## #   origin <chr>, dest <chr>, air_time <dbl>, distance <dbl>, hour <dbl>,
## #   minute <dbl>, time_hour <dttm>
maxdep <- max(flights$dep_delay, na.rm=TRUE)
maxdep_id <- which(flights$dep_delay == maxdep)
flights[maxdep_id, 10:12]
## # A tibble: 1 × 3
##   carrier flight tailnum
##   <chr>    <int> <chr>  
## 1 HA          51 N384HA

Question 3

flights %>% 
  group_by(year, month, day) %>% 
  summarise(mean = mean(dep_delay, na.rm = TRUE))
## `summarise()` has regrouped the output.
## ℹ Summaries were computed grouped by year, month, and day.
## ℹ Output is grouped by year and month.
## ℹ Use `summarise(.groups = "drop_last")` to silence this message.
## ℹ Use `summarise(.by = c(year, month, day))` for per-operation grouping
##   (`?dplyr::dplyr_by`) instead.
## # A tibble: 365 × 4
## # Groups:   year, month [12]
##     year month   day  mean
##    <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
##  1  2013     1     1 11.5 
##  2  2013     1     2 13.9 
##  3  2013     1     3 11.0 
##  4  2013     1     4  8.95
##  5  2013     1     5  5.73
##  6  2013     1     6  7.15
##  7  2013     1     7  5.42
##  8  2013     1     8  2.55
##  9  2013     1     9  2.28
## 10  2013     1    10  2.84
## # ℹ 355 more rows
not_cancelled <- flights %>% 
  filter(!is.na(dep_delay))

not_cancelled %>% 
  group_by(year, month, day) %>% 
  summarise(mean = mean(dep_delay))
## `summarise()` has regrouped the output.
## ℹ Summaries were computed grouped by year, month, and day.
## ℹ Output is grouped by year and month.
## ℹ Use `summarise(.groups = "drop_last")` to silence this message.
## ℹ Use `summarise(.by = c(year, month, day))` for per-operation grouping
##   (`?dplyr::dplyr_by`) instead.
## # A tibble: 365 × 4
## # Groups:   year, month [12]
##     year month   day  mean
##    <int> <int> <int> <dbl>
##  1  2013     1     1 11.5 
##  2  2013     1     2 13.9 
##  3  2013     1     3 11.0 
##  4  2013     1     4  8.95
##  5  2013     1     5  5.73
##  6  2013     1     6  7.15
##  7  2013     1     7  5.42
##  8  2013     1     8  2.55
##  9  2013     1     9  2.28
## 10  2013     1    10  2.84
## # ℹ 355 more rows

Question 4

flights %>%
  group_by(tailnum) %>%
  summarise(avg_delay = mean(arr_delay, na.rm = TRUE)) %>%
  arrange(avg_delay) %>%
  slice(1)
## # A tibble: 1 × 2
##   tailnum avg_delay
##   <chr>       <dbl>
## 1 N560AS        -53

Question 5

not_cancelled <- flights %>% 
  filter(!is.na(dep_time))

daily_extremes <- not_cancelled %>% 
  group_by(year, month, day) %>% 
  summarise(
    first = min(dep_time),
    last = max(dep_time)
  ) %>%
  arrange(desc(last))
## `summarise()` has regrouped the output.
## ℹ Summaries were computed grouped by year, month, and day.
## ℹ Output is grouped by year and month.
## ℹ Use `summarise(.groups = "drop_last")` to silence this message.
## ℹ Use `summarise(.by = c(year, month, day))` for per-operation grouping
##   (`?dplyr::dplyr_by`) instead.
head(daily_extremes)
## # A tibble: 6 × 5
## # Groups:   year, month [3]
##    year month   day first  last
##   <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
## 1  2013     2     7    27  2400
## 2  2013     2    11     1  2400
## 3  2013     3    15    11  2400
## 4  2013     3    22    37  2400
## 5  2013     3    25    13  2400
## 6  2013     4     2     9  2400

Question 6

monthly_delays <- flights %>%
  filter(!is.na(dep_delay)) %>%
  group_by(month) %>%
  summarise(
    total_flights = n(),
    delayed_over_hour = sum(dep_delay > 60),
    proportion = delayed_over_hour / total_flights
  ) %>%
  arrange(desc(proportion))

print(monthly_delays)
## # A tibble: 12 × 4
##    month total_flights delayed_over_hour proportion
##    <int>         <int>             <int>      <dbl>
##  1     7         28485              3820     0.134 
##  2     6         27234              3494     0.128 
##  3    12         27110              2553     0.0942
##  4     4         27662              2535     0.0916
##  5     3         27973              2340     0.0837
##  6     5         28233              2309     0.0818
##  7     8         28841              2295     0.0796
##  8     2         23690              1654     0.0698
##  9     1         26483              1821     0.0688
## 10     9         27122              1330     0.0490
## 11    10         28653              1344     0.0469
## 12    11         27035              1086     0.0402

Question 7

dest_carriers <- flights %>%
  group_by(dest) %>%
  summarise(n_carriers = n_distinct(carrier)) %>%
  arrange(desc(n_carriers))

head(dest_carriers, 10)
## # A tibble: 10 × 2
##    dest  n_carriers
##    <chr>      <int>
##  1 ATL            7
##  2 BOS            7
##  3 CLT            7
##  4 ORD            7
##  5 TPA            7
##  6 AUS            6
##  7 DCA            6
##  8 DTW            6
##  9 IAD            6
## 10 MSP            6