find_gender.RdFind if a string refers to a person, and if so, finds gender by searching Wikidata
find_gender(search, language = "en", description_language = "en", cache = TRUE, wait = 0.1, only_cached = FALSE, exclude_without_uppercase = TRUE, quietly = FALSE)
| search | The query to be searched. |
|---|---|
| language | Two letters language codes to be passed to WikiData to determine search results; it works similarly as looking in the corresponding version of Wikipedia. |
| description_language | The language in which preferably to return the description as a two letter code. If not available, defaults to English. If English is not available, defaults to the language used to search in Wikidata. If not available, it returns NA. |
| cache | Logical, defaults to TRUE. IF TRUE, it stores data on the search string and the resulting Wikidata object. Data are stored inside a `wikidata` folder (if it does not exist, it is automatically created). |
| wait | Numeric, defaults to 0.1. Waiting time between queries, relevant when making a large number of queries. |
| only_cached | Logical, defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, it only uses locally cached information. |
| exclude_without_uppercase | Logical, degaults to TRUE. If the search string does not include any upper case letter, then assume it's not a person. |
| quietly | Logical, defaults to FALSE. If TRUE, no warning message appears when no relevent Wikidata entry is found. |
A data.frame (a tibble) with one row and four columns: Query, Gender, Description, and WikidataID
find_gender(search = "Garibaldi", language = "it")#> # A tibble: 1 x 4 #> Query Gender Description WikidataID #> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> #> 1 Garibaldi male Italian general and politician Q539