This function used a database of names and corresponding gender to lookup the gender of a name. It takes in a vector of names and returns a vector indicating gender for the name. The gender is denoted by "m"/"f"/"u" for male/female/unknown respectively.
Usage
infer_gender(x, detect_cores)
Arguments
x
The vector of names to perform paralleized inference on
detect_cores
If False (default), 2 cores are used. If True, half the number of cores are used on Mac OS else 2 cores are used.
Value
The a vector with m/f/u if the name in the original vector was male female or Unknown respectively