randomNames
Function to generate random gender and ethnicity correct first and/or last names. Names are chosen proportionally based upon their probability of appearing in a large scale data base of real names.
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Function to generate random gender and ethnicity correct first and/or last names. Names are chosen proportionally based upon their probability of appearing in a large scale data base of real names.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: CenterForAssessment
- License: other
- Language: R
- Default Branch: master
- Homepage: https://centerforassessment.github.io/randomNames
- Size: 1.92 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 32
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 7
- Releases: 2
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README.md
randomNames
Overview
The randomNames package contains a single function randomNames which creates random gender/ethnicity correct first and/or last names where names are proportionally sampled based upon their frequency in a large scale database.
Installation
From CRAN
To install the latest stable release of randomNames from CRAN
```R
install.packages("randomNames") ```
From Github
To install the development release of randomNames from GitHub:
```R
devtools::install_github("CenterForAssessment/randomNames") ```
Usage
```
randomNames(5) ## 5 last, first names [1] "Mossberg, Cassie" "Mendiaz, Victoria" "Miner, Cassidy" "Austin, Brook" "Babcock, Lloyd"
randomNames(5, gender=1) ## 5 female last, first names [1] "Bruckner, Birva" "Caringer, Madelyn" "Mendoza, Rebecca" "el-Haque, Jaleela" "Williams, Miranda"
randomNames(5, gender=0) ## 5 male last, first names [1] "al-Salam, Rida" "Debus, Kai" "al-Aly, Jaabir" "Garces, Markus" "Robertson, Trevor"
randomNames(5, gender=0, ethnicity=3) ## 5 African American, male last, first names [1] "Bashir, Shaquille" "Ursery, Keilan" "Marlow, Marvin" "Bell, Daishavon" "Hammond, Kyle"
randomNames(5, gender=1, ethnicity=6, which.names="first") ## 5 Middle Eastern, female first names [1] "Jawhara" "Raaniya" "Ghaada" "Ghazaala" "Raabia" ```
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Contributors
The randomNames Package is crafted with :heart: by:
I love feedback and am happy to answer questions.
Owner
- Name: Center for Assessment
- Login: CenterForAssessment
- Kind: organization
- Email: support@nciea.org
- Location: Dover, New Hampshire
- Website: www.nciea.org
- Twitter: NCIEA1
- Repositories: 53
- Profile: https://github.com/CenterForAssessment
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.0.0 message: "If you use the randomNames Package, please cite it using these metadata." authors: - family-names: "Damian" given-names: "Betebenner" orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0476-5599" title: "randomNames: Generate Random Given and Surnames" version: 1.6-1.0 date-released: 2024-12-3 url: "https://centerforassessment.github.io/randomNames/"
GitHub Events
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- Issues event: 1
- Push event: 3
- Pull request event: 6
Last Year
- Issues event: 1
- Push event: 3
- Pull request event: 6
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Last synced: 9 months ago
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| Name | Commits | |
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| dbetebenner | d****r@g****m | 100 |
| The Gitter Badger | b****r@g****m | 1 |
| Joshua Lambert | j****t@l****k | 1 |
| Adam VanIwaarden | a****n@g****m | 1 |
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Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 18
- Total pull requests: 73
- Average time to close issues: 7 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 1 day
- Total issue authors: 15
- Total pull request authors: 3
- Average comments per issue: 1.33
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 73
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
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- Issues: 1
- Pull requests: 4
- Average time to close issues: N/A
- Average time to close pull requests: less than a minute
- Issue authors: 1
- Pull request authors: 1
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- dbetebenner (72)
- gitter-badger (1)
- joshwlambert (1)
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- Total packages: 1
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Total downloads:
- cran 3,859 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 5,563
- Total dependent packages: 5
- Total dependent repositories: 15
- Total versions: 13
- Total maintainers: 1
cran.r-project.org: randomNames
Generate Random Given and Surnames
- Homepage: https://centerforassessment.github.io/randomNames/
- Documentation: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/randomNames/randomNames.pdf
- License: GPL-3
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Latest release: 1.6-0.0
published almost 2 years ago
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Dependencies
- R >= 4.0 depends
- crayon * imports
- data.table >= 1.14.0 imports
- toOrdinal >= 1.1 imports
- knitr * suggests
- rmarkdown * suggests