wakefield (version 0.3.6)

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
# }