In eamoncaddigan/GenderGuesser: Guess the gender of a name

GenderGuesser uses the API at genderize.io to guess the gender of a name. Right now, GenderGuesser only exports a single function, guessGender. Calling this function returns a data.frame containing the results from genderize.io.

library("GenderGuesser")

# Call with a single name
guessGender("Natalie")

# Call with multiple names
guessGender(c("Liam", "Taidghin", "Eamon", "Sean"))

genderize.io can refine results based on language or country.

# "Kim" is usually a female name in the US
guessGender("Kim", countryCode = "US")

# But "Kim" is usually a male name in Denmark (use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
guessGender("Kim", countryCode = "DK")

# You can use the ISO 639-1 language code instead
guessGender("Kim", languageCode = "da")

You can purchase an API key from genderize.io to get around their rate limit (100 names per day). Pass it to the function using the apiKey argument.

eamoncaddigan/GenderGuesser documentation built on May 15, 2019, 7:26 p.m.