Changes in version 0.6.0 (2021-10-13)                  

  - Fixes installation problems with the move away from rOpenSci
  - Removes the gender_df() function, which did not work properly.

                 Changes in version 0.5.4 (2020-05-15)                  

  - update dependencies, and fix for dplyr 1.0.0
  - update URL for rOpenSci CRAN-like repository

                 Changes in version 0.5.3 (2019-11-09)                  

  - improvements to documentation
  - improvements to testing when genderdata is available

                 Changes in version 0.5.2 (2018-03-07)                  

  - bugfix for change in the genderize.io API (#50)

                 Changes in version 0.5.1 (2015-09-04)                  

  - bugfix for some users who cannot install the genderdata package as
    binary

                 Changes in version 0.5.0 (2015-08-22)                  

  - 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

                 Changes in version 0.4.3 (2014-12-24)                  

  - updates to README.md as requested by CRAN

                 Changes in version 0.4.2 (2014-12-03)                  

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

                 Changes in version 0.4.1 (2014-09-29)                  

  - 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

                         Changes in version 0.4                         

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

                         Changes in version 0.3                         

  - 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

                         Changes in version 0.2                         

  - 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.

                         Changes in version 0.1                         

  - 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