genderizeR (version 1.2.0)

findGivenNames: Getting gender prediction data for a given text vector.

Description

findGivenNames extract from text unique terms and gets the gender predicion for all these terms.

Usage

findGivenNames(x, apikey = NULL, queryLength = 10, progress = TRUE,
  ssl.verifypeer = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A text vector.

apikey

A character string with the API key obtained via https://store.genderize.io. A default is NULL, which uses the free API plan.

queryLength

How much terms can be check in a one single query

progress

If TRUE (default) progress bar is displayed in the console

ssl.verifypeer

Checks the SSL Cerftificate. Default is TRUE.

Value

• A data table with names gener probabilities and counts for terms in given text vector.

Examples

grid = (expand.grid(a=letters,b=letters))
findGivenNames(paste0(grid$a,grid$b))