This R data package provides rail information about rail trails from the excellent TrailLink website, sponsored by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Includes information (such as name, length, surface, and reviews) 3,846 trails and 24,413 reviews in every state in the United States.
You can install railtrails with the install.packages()
function.
install.packages("railtrails")
Here is how to load the data:
d <- railtrails::railtrails
d
#> # A tibble: 3,846 x 11
#> state name distance surface category mean_review description n_reviews
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 AK Chas… 14.0 Dirt, … Rail-Tr… 4 "\r\n … 1 Reviews
#> 2 AK Tony… 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 3 AK Bird… 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 4 AK Camp… 7.50 Asphal… Greenwa… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 5 AK Goos… 1.50 Asphal… Greenwa… 0 "\r\n … 0 Reviews
#> 6 AK Home… 4.00 Asphalt Greenwa… 5 "On the so… 1 Reviews
#> 7 AK Lani… 3.90 Asphal… Greenwa… 3 "The Lanie… 1 Reviews
#> 8 AK Palm… 6.10 Gravel Rail-Tr… 0 "As its na… 0 Reviews
#> 9 AK Ship… 2.60 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 4 " \r\nShip… 1 Reviews
#> 10 AL Chie… 33.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "In northe… 77 Revie…
#> # ... with 3,836 more rows, and 3 more variables: raw_reviews <list>,
#> # lat <dbl>, lng <dbl>
You may want to “unnest” the list-column with reviews in the following way:
library(tidyr)
d <- railtrails::railtrails
d <- d %>% unnest(raw_reviews)
d
#> # A tibble: 24,413 x 11
#> state name distance surface category mean_review description n_reviews
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 AK Chas… 14.0 Dirt, … Rail-Tr… 4 "\r\n … 1 Reviews
#> 2 AK Tony… 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 3 AK Tony… 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 4 AK Tony… 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 5 AK Tony… 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 6 AK Tony… 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "The Tony … 5 Reviews
#> 7 AK Bird… 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 8 AK Bird… 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 9 AK Bird… 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Tr… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> 10 AK Camp… 7.50 Asphal… Greenwa… 5 "\r\n … 3 Reviews
#> # ... with 24,403 more rows, and 3 more variables: lat <dbl>, lng <dbl>,
#> # raw_reviews <int>
See more information about the variables with ?railtrails
.
If you like using this package, please consider visiting or even making a donation to the Rails to Trails Conservancy at via https://www.traillink.com/.
The data was last updated 2018/2/2.
I am interested in adding the trailhead location to the data; this can be done fairly easily using the Google Maps API but will take considerable time due to the number of trails. Contributions are welcome. Requests for features can be made on GitHub.
Thank you to Bob Rudis for feedback that helped to improve this package.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.