NEWS

gender 0.5.1
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* bugfix for some users who cannot install the `genderdata` package as binary


gender 0.5.0
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* genderdata package is installed using `install.packages()` from the rOpenSci
  package repository instead of using `install_github()`.
* all functions always return data frames
* general performance improvements
* calls to Genderize.io API no longer fail if the name does not exist
* new function `gender_df()` efficiently applies `gender()` to data frames
* add North Atlantic Population Project dataset for six European countries

gender 0.4.3
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* updates to README.md as requested by CRAN

gender 0.4.2
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* bugfix: Kantrowitz method is now case-insensitive
* updates to title and descriptions according to CRAN policy

gender 0.4.1
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* tests and vignettes run without depending on the genderdata package
* users will be prompted to install the genderdata package from GitHub the
  first time that it is necessary
* added a demo mode with a minimal dataset

gender 0.4
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* data is now external to the gender package and is available in the
  genderdata package.
* genderdata package can be installed with a new function

gender 0.3
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* rewrote all functions to take only character vectors, not data frames, but
  provided instructions on how to use with data frames
* wrote a vignette describing the data sources and explaining the historical
  methodology behind this package

gender 0.2
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* implemented an `ipums` method that predicts gender before 1930 using U.S. Census
  data from IPUMS (contributed by Benjamin Schmidt).

* upgraded dependency on `dplyr` to 0.2.

gender 0.1
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* function `gender` implements gender lookup for names and data frames

* implemented finding gender by using the Kantrowitz names corpus

* implemented finding gender by using the national Social Security
  Administration data for names and dates of birth