> On 1 Dec 2016, at 23:42, Rich Shepard <rshep...@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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
