Package 'genero'

Title: Estimate Gender from Names in Spanish and Portuguese
Description: Estimate gender from names in Spanish and Portuguese. Works with vectors and dataframes. The estimation works not only for first names but also full names. The package relies on a compilation of common names with it's most frequent associated gender in both languages which are used as look up tables for gender inference.
Authors: Juan Pablo Marin Diaz [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Juan Pablo Marin Diaz <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 0.1.0
Built: 2025-02-17 05:00:24 UTC
Source: https://github.com/datasketch/genero

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Panel component for shiny panels layout

Description

Panel component for shiny panels layout

Usage

genero(
  nms,
  result_as = c(male = "male", female = "female"),
  lang = "es",
  col = NULL,
  na = NA,
  rev_weights = FALSE
)

Arguments

result_as

A named vector with names c("male", "female") values can be used to override the results.
lang

Use "es" for Spanish (default), "pt" for Portuguese.
col

The name of the column with the names or full names. when the input is a data frame.
na

String to be used when there is not match for gender
rev_weights

Boolean to indicate if weights should be reversed when input names have the format Last Name First Name.
names

A vector or data.frame with names or full names

Value

A vector of data frame with the estimated gender for the input. When the input is data.frame a column is attached next to the column used for the input names with the result.

Examples

genero(c("Juan", "Pablo", "Camila", "Mariana"))

Names with gender in Spanish

Description

These data was collected and organized manually from multiples sources. It consists of more than 9810 names in Spanish and its corresponding associated gender accounting for name variations.

Usage

names_gender_es

Format

Data frame with two columns: name and gender.

Examples

names_gender_es

Names with gender in Portuguese

Description

These data is created and derived from https://brasil.io/dataset/genero-nomes/nomes it consists of more than 50.000 names in Portuguese and its corresponding associated gender.

Usage

names_gender_pt

Format

Data frame with two columns: name and gender.

Examples

names_gender_pt

Which name column

Description

Which name column

Usage

which_name_column(colnames, colname_variations = NULL, show_guess = FALSE)

Arguments

colnames

A vector of data.frame names.
colname_variations

A vector of custom names to append to the vector of frequent colnames for first names.
show_guess

Show message with the guessed column.

Value

A single colname with the match of common first name columns.

Examples

which_name_column(c("Name", "Age", "City"))