text2people: Finds some good info related to people.

In rtelmore/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 = RCurl::getCurlHandle())

Arguments

text	A text string containing a person's name or a comma-separated list of names.
session	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.

References

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

See Also

curlPerform, getCurlHandle, dynCurlReader

Examples

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

## End(Not run)

rtelmore/RDSTK documentation built on May 12, 2019, 4:26 p.m.