In SinanPolatoglu/namsor: Provides functionality for the NAMSOR name checking API service

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namsor

The goal of namsor is to provide some functionality to use some endpoints for namsor's name checking API service. One can use this to for retrieve best estimations for a name's gender and/or ethnicity.

Installation

You can install the development version of namsor like so:

require(remotes)
remotes::install_github('SinanPolatoglu/namsor')

Usage

Obtain an API key via namsor.com

library(namsor)

## SET API KEY
# Sys.setenv(NAMSOR_API_KEY='your api key')

Supported endpoints currently are

• namsor_gender
• namsor_origin
• namsor_country
• namsor_diaspora

Result in case of a succesful call will be as list with the retrieved output. For example:

str(namsor_origin('Sinan', 'Polatoglu'))

SinanPolatoglu/namsor documentation built on Jan. 16, 2022, 12:33 a.m.