This is the initial release of the randomNames package. The randomNames package was developed to avoid always naming anonymous persons John Doe or Jane Doe. Random names generated from the randomNames function are derived from a large data base of personal names with gender and ethnicity identifiers. The names are also probabilistically selected based upon their frequency in the original data from which they were derived.

> library(randomNames)
> randomNames(5)
[1] "Sommerville, Marcela" "al-Zaidi, Maisara"    "Boese, Salvador"      "Hardy, Stephen"       "Sepulona, Madeleine" 

For complete randomNames documentation, see the documentation