stats19

Spec sheet

Purpose

stats19 provides functions for downloading and formatting Great Britain’s official road traffic casualty data.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Intended users

The project article identifies academics, policy makers, road safety campaigners, and R programmers or analysts as target audiences.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Deployment

desktopRead 23 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Free plan

YesRead 23 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Integrations

The documentation demonstrates using stats19 data with sf and dplyr for geographic operations and joins.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Support

The package page directs bug reports to its GitHub issues tracker.Read 12 Oct 2026 · cran.r-project.org

License

The package is licensed under GPL-3.Read 12 Oct 2026 · cran.r-project.org

Combined workflow

The get_stats19() function downloads, reads, and formats STATS19 data in one step.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Data coverage

The package page states that STATS19 data is available from 1979 to 2025.Read 12 Oct 2026 · cran.r-project.org

Data import formats

CSV files from UK STATS19 datasetsRead 23 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Data licence

The documentation says the data is provided under the Open Government Licence v3.0 and asks users to cite and link to its source.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Data license

The documentation says the data is provided under the Open Government Licence version 3.0.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Data tables

The data is organized into collisions, casualties, and vehicles tables.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Download and formatting

The get_stats19() function downloads and formats data by year and table type, while separate functions can download or read the tables.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Geographic data

The package can convert collision data into the geographic data form used by the sf package.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Installation

The docs provide installation instructions for the package from GitHub and CRAN.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Mapping

The documentation demonstrates mapping crash data with ggplot2 and leaflet.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Notable data limit

The project article states that STATS19 omits crashes in which nobody was hurt.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Publication

The package documentation says stats19 has been peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Open Source Software.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Research use

The documentation describes using the data for road safety research, mapping, and time series analysis.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Review

The project documentation says the package has been peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Open Source Software.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Scripting support

YesRead 23 Sep 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Separate workflow

Users can download files or read collision, casualty, and vehicle data separately.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Spatial data

The package can convert collision data into sf geographic data, and rows without coordinates are removed during conversion.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.ropensci.org

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Statistical Analysis Software#43 of 1068.0