odbr: Download Data from Brazil’s Origin Destination Surveys

odbr is an R package to download data from Brazil’s Origin Destination Surveys. The package provides databases, maps, and data dictionaries in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Furthermore, it is possible to download harmonized data across different cohorts for the same city.

Installation

You can install the odbr Package with:

# install from CRAN
install.packages("odbr")
library(odbr)

You can install the development version of odbr from GitHub with:

# or use the development version with latest features
devtools::install_github("hsvab/odbr")
library(odbr)

Basic Usage

The syntax of all odbr functions operate on the same logic so it becomes intuitive to download any data set using a single line of code. Like this:

# Return data from OD Surveys database as data.frame
library(odbr)

df <- read_od(
  city = "Sao Paulo",
  year = 2017,
  harmonize = FALSE
)

# Return zone data from OD Surveys database as sf object at a given city and year
df <- read_map(
  city = "Sao Paulo",
  year = 2017,
  harmonize = FALSE,
  geometry = "zone"
)

# Return data dictionary from OD Surveys, as data.frame, at a given city and year
df <- read_dictionary(
  city = "Sao Paulo",
  year = 2017,
  harmonize = FALSE,
  language = "pt"
)

Available datasets:

The original geodetic reference system remained unchanged.

City	Years available	Harmonized	Dictionary languages	Source
São Paulo	1977, 1987, 1997, 2007, 2017	No	en, es, pt-br	Metrô-SP

There is no harmonized data available yet.

All harmonized datasets use geodetic reference system “SIRGAS2000”, CRS(4674).

Contributing to odbr

If you would like to contribute to odbr, you’re welcome to open an issue to explain the proposed a contribution.

Credits

Original databases and shapefiles are created by local official government institutions.

The logo was designed by Marcos Kyoto de Tani e Isoda

If you want to cite this package, you can cite it as:

• Svab, Haydee; Milz, Beatriz; Oliveira, Diego Rabatone; Pereira, Rafael H. M.

2023. odbr: Download Data from Brazil’s Origin Destination Surveys. R package version v0.1.0, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=odbr.

bibentry(
  bibtype  = "Manual",
  title       = "odbr: Download Data from Brazil's Origin Destination Surveys",
  author      = "Haydee Svab [aut, cre] and Beatriz Milz [aut] and Diego Rabatone Oliveira [aut] and Rafael H. M. Pereira [aut]",
  year        = 2023,
  version     = "v0.1.0",
  url         = "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=odbr",
  textVersion = "Svab, H.; Milz, B.;  Oliveira, D. R.; Pereira, R. H. M. (2023) odbr: Download Data from Brazil's Origin Destination Surveys v0.1.0, <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=odbr>."
)

Sponsors

The odbr package was initially sponsored by rOpenSci through its Champions Program (2022 edition) whose main goal is to provide support to R developers from around the world who identify themselves as members of groups that are systematically excluded from the open-source software community.