Random Error with large samples without replacement about randomnames HOT 2 CLOSED

I'm realising that randomNames might be the wrong package to generate unique names. babynames has 97'310 unique first names that are easily accessible.

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Hi,

Setting sample.with.replacement=FALSE can cause this issue, especially with some of the ethnic subgroups where the database doesn't have a large set of names (e.g., arabic).

When you request 5000 random names, the function randomly selects them from each ethnic group and each sex. The function couldn't find enough random arabic first names leading to the error.

If you just want a bunch of random names, one thing you can do is just use unique with randomNames. Say you want 100,000 randomNames.

my.names <- unique(randomNames(150000))[1:100000]

I asked for more than 100000, knowing there might be a few duplicates and then just took the first 100000.

Hope that helps. Sorry for the slow reply

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