text2people: Finds some good info related to people

In RDSTK: An R wrapper for the Data Science Toolkit API

Description

This function will return information such as first and last name, title, etc. for a given person or persons.

Usage

text2people(text, session=getCurlHandle())

Arguments

text	A text string containing a person's name or a comma-separated list of names.
session	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

Value

A data.frame containing

gender	Gender of the person.
first_name	The person's first name
title	A title associated with this person.
surnames	The person's last name
start_index	The beginning of the matched string in the original string.
end_index	The end of the matched string in the original string.
matched_string	The matched string used to look up this information.

Author(s)

Ryan Elmore

References

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#text2people

See Also

curlPerform, getCurlHandle, dynCurlReader

Examples

	## Not run: 
		text2people("Tim O'Reilly, Archbishop Huxley")
	
## End(Not run)

RDSTK documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:49 a.m.