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Message-ID: <9683FAB6-F51C-4C88-B07A-41A6D657C646@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-12-01T20:58:24Z
From: Ismail SEZEN
Subject: Identifying Gender
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.11.1612011238020.14276@localhost>

> On 1 Dec 2016, at 23:42, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 is right and I don?t think that you have thousands of "managers". Perhaps maximum 100? So, it?s more reasonable to identify the gender manually.