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R: Finds some good info related to people

text2people

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Finds some good info related to people

This function will return information such as first and last name, title, etc. for a given person or persons.

text2people(text, session=getCurlHandle())

`text`	A text string containing a person's name or a comma-separated list of names.
`session`	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

A data.frame containing

`gender`	Gender of the person.
`first_name`	The person's first name
`title`	A title associated with this person.
`surnames`	The person's last name
`start_index`	The beginning of the matched string in the original string.
`end_index`	The end of the matched string in the original string.
`matched_string`	The matched string used to look up this information.

Ryan Elmore

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#text2people

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		text2people("Tim O'Reilly, Archbishop Huxley")
	
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