Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.11.1612011238020.14276@localhost>
Date: 2016-12-01T20:42:20Z
From: Rich Shepard
Subject: Identifying Gender
In-Reply-To: <824423988.5512390.1480621226455@mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote:
> I have a csv file of Names based on male and female managers. Is there
> some code in R to identify the gender by names?
Saba,
Despite the availability of some tools you'll never find a satisfactory
answer. Consider Lynn, Alex, Ari, Blaine, Blake, Bobby, etc. Then you'll get
others that don't fall into any discrete category.
Perhaps a separate column in your CSV file for gender?
Rich