wakefield (version 0.3.0)

race: Generate Random Vector of Races

Description

Generate a random vector of races.

Usage

race(n, x = c("White", "Hispanic", "Black", "Asian", "Bi-Racial", "Native",
  "Other", "Hawaiian"), prob = c(0.637, 0.163, 0.122, 0.047, 0.019, 0.007,
  0.002, 0.0015), name = "Race")

Arguments

n

The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within the environment of r_data_frame or r_list.

x

A vector of elements to chose from.

prob

A vector of probabilities to chose from.

name

The name to assign to the output vector's varname attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when used inside of r_data_frame or r_list.

Value

Returns a random factor vector of elements.

Details

The races and probabilities used match approximate U.S. racial make-up. The default make up is:

Race	Percent
White	63.70 %
Hispanic	16.30 %
Black	12.20 %
Asian	4.70 %
Bi-Racial	1.90 %
Native	.70 %
Other	.20 %
Hawaiian	.15 %

See Also

Other variable.functions: age, animal, answer, area, car, children, coin, color, date_stamp, death, dice, dna, dob, dummy, education, employment, eye, grade_level, grade, group, hair, height, income, internet_browser, iq, language, level, likert, lorem_ipsum, marital, military, month, name, normal, political, religion, sat, sentence, sex_inclusive, sex, smokes, speed, state, string, upper, valid, year, zip_code

Examples

# NOT RUN {
race(10)
100*table(race(n <- 10000))/n
# }