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Identifying Gender

7 messages · Saba Sehrish, Rui Barradas, Ismail SEZEN +3 more

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Hi
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?
ThanksSaba
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Hello,

I doubt there is, at least a search with package sos didn't show 
anything usefull.
But a google search found
https://github.com/KartikTalwar/LeGenderary

Maybe you can get inspiration from there and adapt to R code.

Rui Barradas

Em 01-12-2016 19:40, Saba Sehrish via R-help escreveu:
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A simple google search gives the what you are after [1]. But I think it works only for English names. Consider this before use.

1- https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gender/index.html
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On 01/12/2016 2:40 PM, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote:
There was a package called genderNames on CRAN for a couple of months, 
but the maintainer abandoned it.  You could recover it from the CRAN 
archive and see if you can get it to build.

Look for it in <https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive>.

Duncan Murdoch
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote:

            
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
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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.
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On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Ismail SEZEN <sezenismail at gmail.com> wrote:
Both Paul ("Crocodile Dundee") Hogan and Donald Trump agree on that.

Jim