title: Is there a package to determine gender from English first names?
body: <p>I am curious to know whether there is a package or method for <strong>R</strong> to guess gender from first names.</p>
  
  <p><del>I am thinking of running it on the U.S. Congress as a test.</del></p>
  
  <p><strong>I need this to work over several European languages.</strong></p>
  
  <p><del>CRAN does not have such a package.</del></p>
  
  <p><strong>CRAN has the gender package, but it works only on English names.</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>Issue solved by the <a href="https://github.com/kalimu/genderizeR" rel="nofollow">genderizeR</a> package.</strong> See links in my self-answer.</p>