Please add argument `initial.letter =` about randomnames HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for the suggestion. This could get complicated. Given that there isn't an endless supply of names in the internal dataset, requests for certain initial.letter, gender, ethnicity combinations would likely yield no names or repeats.

Consider the following wrapper function:

firstLetter <- function(tmp_data, first_letter, count) {
    sample(tmp_data[first_letter==substr(tmp_data, start=1, stop=1)], count, replace=TRUE)
}

firstLetter(randomNames(n=5000, gender=1, ethnicity = 4, which.names="first"), first_letter="Q", count=5)

> firstLetter(randomNames(n=5000, gender=1, ethnicity = 4, which.names="first"), first_letter="Q", count=5)

[1] "Quanisha"  "Quetzally" "Quetzally" "Quetzally" "Quanisha"

There are (it seems) only about 3 unique gender=1 ethnicity=4 names that start with a Q.

I have to ask for 5000 names so that I get enough names so that there is actually one containing Q.

Is this what you're (roughly) looking to do?

from randomnames.

Amazing, thank you very much. This is what i was looking for (roughly) speaking. Though it would be amazing a parameter for a initial.letter= , i understand that maybe the database does not have the same amount of names per letter. Anyway, greatful for your answer. Greetings from Perú.

from randomnames.