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download.file("https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/repdata%2Fdata%2FStormData.csv.bz2", "StormData.csv.bz2", mode="wb")extract according to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25948777/extract-bz2-file-in-r you can just read it in without extracting it
read in
stormData <- read.csv("StormData.csv.bz2")
summary(stormData)## STATE__ BGN_DATE BGN_TIME
## Min. : 1.0 5/25/2011 0:00:00: 1202 12:00:00 AM: 10163
## 1st Qu.:19.0 4/27/2011 0:00:00: 1193 06:00:00 PM: 7350
## Median :30.0 6/9/2011 0:00:00 : 1030 04:00:00 PM: 7261
## Mean :31.2 5/30/2004 0:00:00: 1016 05:00:00 PM: 6891
## 3rd Qu.:45.0 4/4/2011 0:00:00 : 1009 12:00:00 PM: 6703
## Max. :95.0 4/2/2006 0:00:00 : 981 03:00:00 PM: 6700
## (Other) :895866 (Other) :857229
## TIME_ZONE COUNTY COUNTYNAME STATE
## CST :547493 Min. : 0.0 JEFFERSON : 7840 TX : 83728
## EST :245558 1st Qu.: 31.0 WASHINGTON: 7603 KS : 53440
## MST : 68390 Median : 75.0 JACKSON : 6660 OK : 46802
## PST : 28302 Mean :100.6 FRANKLIN : 6256 MO : 35648
## AST : 6360 3rd Qu.:131.0 LINCOLN : 5937 IA : 31069
## HST : 2563 Max. :873.0 MADISON : 5632 NE : 30271
## (Other): 3631 (Other) :862369 (Other):621339
## EVTYPE BGN_RANGE BGN_AZI
## HAIL :288661 Min. : 0.000 :547332
## TSTM WIND :219940 1st Qu.: 0.000 N : 86752
## THUNDERSTORM WIND: 82563 Median : 0.000 W : 38446
## TORNADO : 60652 Mean : 1.484 S : 37558
## FLASH FLOOD : 54277 3rd Qu.: 1.000 E : 33178
## FLOOD : 25326 Max. :3749.000 NW : 24041
## (Other) :170878 (Other):134990
## BGN_LOCATI END_DATE END_TIME
## :287743 :243411 :238978
## COUNTYWIDE : 19680 4/27/2011 0:00:00: 1214 06:00:00 PM: 9802
## Countywide : 993 5/25/2011 0:00:00: 1196 05:00:00 PM: 8314
## SPRINGFIELD : 843 6/9/2011 0:00:00 : 1021 04:00:00 PM: 8104
## SOUTH PORTION: 810 4/4/2011 0:00:00 : 1007 12:00:00 PM: 7483
## NORTH PORTION: 784 5/30/2004 0:00:00: 998 11:59:00 PM: 7184
## (Other) :591444 (Other) :653450 (Other) :622432
## COUNTY_END COUNTYENDN END_RANGE END_AZI
## Min. :0 Mode:logical Min. : 0.0000 :724837
## 1st Qu.:0 NA's:902297 1st Qu.: 0.0000 N : 28082
## Median :0 Median : 0.0000 S : 22510
## Mean :0 Mean : 0.9862 W : 20119
## 3rd Qu.:0 3rd Qu.: 0.0000 E : 20047
## Max. :0 Max. :925.0000 NE : 14606
## (Other): 72096
## END_LOCATI LENGTH WIDTH
## :499225 Min. : 0.0000 Min. : 0.000
## COUNTYWIDE : 19731 1st Qu.: 0.0000 1st Qu.: 0.000
## SOUTH PORTION : 833 Median : 0.0000 Median : 0.000
## NORTH PORTION : 780 Mean : 0.2301 Mean : 7.503
## CENTRAL PORTION: 617 3rd Qu.: 0.0000 3rd Qu.: 0.000
## SPRINGFIELD : 575 Max. :2315.0000 Max. :4400.000
## (Other) :380536
## F MAG FATALITIES INJURIES
## Min. :0.0 Min. : 0.0 Min. : 0.0000 Min. : 0.0000
## 1st Qu.:0.0 1st Qu.: 0.0 1st Qu.: 0.0000 1st Qu.: 0.0000
## Median :1.0 Median : 50.0 Median : 0.0000 Median : 0.0000
## Mean :0.9 Mean : 46.9 Mean : 0.0168 Mean : 0.1557
## 3rd Qu.:1.0 3rd Qu.: 75.0 3rd Qu.: 0.0000 3rd Qu.: 0.0000
## Max. :5.0 Max. :22000.0 Max. :583.0000 Max. :1700.0000
## NA's :843563
## PROPDMG PROPDMGEXP CROPDMG CROPDMGEXP
## Min. : 0.00 :465934 Min. : 0.000 :618413
## 1st Qu.: 0.00 K :424665 1st Qu.: 0.000 K :281832
## Median : 0.00 M : 11330 Median : 0.000 M : 1994
## Mean : 12.06 0 : 216 Mean : 1.527 k : 21
## 3rd Qu.: 0.50 B : 40 3rd Qu.: 0.000 0 : 19
## Max. :5000.00 5 : 28 Max. :990.000 B : 9
## (Other): 84 (Other): 9
## WFO STATEOFFIC
## :142069 :248769
## OUN : 17393 TEXAS, North : 12193
## JAN : 13889 ARKANSAS, Central and North Central: 11738
## LWX : 13174 IOWA, Central : 11345
## PHI : 12551 KANSAS, Southwest : 11212
## TSA : 12483 GEORGIA, North and Central : 11120
## (Other):690738 (Other) :595920
## ZONENAMES
## :594029
## :205988
## GREATER RENO / CARSON CITY / M - GREATER RENO / CARSON CITY / M : 639
## GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA - GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA : 592
## JEFFERSON - JEFFERSON : 303
## MADISON - MADISON : 302
## (Other) :100444
## LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE_E LONGITUDE_
## Min. : 0 Min. :-14451 Min. : 0 Min. :-14455
## 1st Qu.:2802 1st Qu.: 7247 1st Qu.: 0 1st Qu.: 0
## Median :3540 Median : 8707 Median : 0 Median : 0
## Mean :2875 Mean : 6940 Mean :1452 Mean : 3509
## 3rd Qu.:4019 3rd Qu.: 9605 3rd Qu.:3549 3rd Qu.: 8735
## Max. :9706 Max. : 17124 Max. :9706 Max. :106220
## NA's :47 NA's :40
## REMARKS REFNUM
## :287433 Min. : 1
## : 24013 1st Qu.:225575
## Trees down.\n : 1110 Median :451149
## Several trees were blown down.\n : 568 Mean :451149
## Trees were downed.\n : 446 3rd Qu.:676723
## Large trees and power lines were blown down.\n: 432 Max. :902297
## (Other) :588295head(stormData)## STATE__ BGN_DATE BGN_TIME TIME_ZONE COUNTY COUNTYNAME STATE
## 1 1 4/18/1950 0:00:00 0130 CST 97 MOBILE AL
## 2 1 4/18/1950 0:00:00 0145 CST 3 BALDWIN AL
## 3 1 2/20/1951 0:00:00 1600 CST 57 FAYETTE AL
## 4 1 6/8/1951 0:00:00 0900 CST 89 MADISON AL
## 5 1 11/15/1951 0:00:00 1500 CST 43 CULLMAN AL
## 6 1 11/15/1951 0:00:00 2000 CST 77 LAUDERDALE AL
## EVTYPE BGN_RANGE BGN_AZI BGN_LOCATI END_DATE END_TIME COUNTY_END
## 1 TORNADO 0 0
## 2 TORNADO 0 0
## 3 TORNADO 0 0
## 4 TORNADO 0 0
## 5 TORNADO 0 0
## 6 TORNADO 0 0
## COUNTYENDN END_RANGE END_AZI END_LOCATI LENGTH WIDTH F MAG FATALITIES
## 1 NA 0 14.0 100 3 0 0
## 2 NA 0 2.0 150 2 0 0
## 3 NA 0 0.1 123 2 0 0
## 4 NA 0 0.0 100 2 0 0
## 5 NA 0 0.0 150 2 0 0
## 6 NA 0 1.5 177 2 0 0
## INJURIES PROPDMG PROPDMGEXP CROPDMG CROPDMGEXP WFO STATEOFFIC ZONENAMES
## 1 15 25.0 K 0
## 2 0 2.5 K 0
## 3 2 25.0 K 0
## 4 2 2.5 K 0
## 5 2 2.5 K 0
## 6 6 2.5 K 0
## LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE_E LONGITUDE_ REMARKS REFNUM
## 1 3040 8812 3051 8806 1
## 2 3042 8755 0 0 2
## 3 3340 8742 0 0 3
## 4 3458 8626 0 0 4
## 5 3412 8642 0 0 5
## 6 3450 8748 0 0 6