[R] Identifying Gender

Ismail SEZEN
Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:58:24 -0000

> 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.