[R] Identifying Gender
    Rich Shepard 
    rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
       
    Thu Dec  1 21:42:20 CET 2016
    
    
  
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
    
    
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