[R] Identifying Gender

[Ismail SEZEN]

> On 1 Dec 2016, at 23:42, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote:
> 
>> I have a csv file of Names based on male and female managers. Is there
>> some code in R to identify the gender by names?
> 
> Saba,
> 
>  Despite the availability of some tools you'll never find a satisfactory
> answer. Consider Lynn, Alex, Ari, Blaine, Blake, Bobby, etc. Then you'll get
> others that don't fall into any discrete category.
> 
>  Perhaps a separate column in your CSV file for gender?
> 

Rich is right and I don’t think that you have thousands of "managers". Perhaps maximum 100? So, it’s more reasonable to identify the gender manually.