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GenderInfer

The goal of GenderInfer is to analysed data for gender differences in publishing. It assigns the gender based on the first name. It should only be used when self-reported gender is unavailable. This package let possible to find if there are significant differences between male and female from a specified baselines.

Installation

You can install the released version of GenderInfer from CRAN with:

install.packages("GenderInfer")

It is also possible to install the package directly from bitbucket

devtools::install_bitbucket("rscapplications/genderinfer")

The package use the following packages as dependencies:

  binom
  ggplot2

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to assign gender to a data frame containing first names:

library(GenderInfer)
## assign gender
authors_df <- assign_gender(data_df = authors, first_name_col = first_name)
head(authors_df)

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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