Package: wru
Title: Who are You? Bayesian Prediction of Racial Category Using
        Surname, First Name, Middle Name, and Geolocation
Version: 3.1.1
Date: 2026-04-30
Authors@R: c(
    person("Kabir", "Khanna", , "kabirkhanna@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
    person("Brandon", "Bertelsen", , "brandon@bertelsen.ca", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Santiago", "Olivella", , "olivella@unc.edu", role = "aut"),
    person("Evan", "Rosenman", , "etrrosenman@gmail.com", role = "aut"),
    person("Alexander", "Rossell Hayes", , "alexander@rossellhayes.com", role = "aut"),
    person("Kosuke", "Imai", , "imai@harvard.edu", role = "aut"),
    person("Noah", "Dasanaike", , "noahdasanaike@g.harvard.edu", role = "aut")
  )
Description: Predicts individual race/ethnicity using surname, first
        name, middle name, geolocation, and other attributes, such as
        gender and age. The method utilizes Bayes' Rule (with optional
        measurement error correction) to compute the posterior
        probability of each racial category for any given individual.
        The package implements methods described in Imai and Khanna
        (2016) "Improving Ecological Inference by Predicting Individual
        Ethnicity from Voter Registration Records" Political Analysis
        <DOI:10.1093/pan/mpw001> and Imai, Olivella, and Rosenman
        (2022) "Addressing census data problems in race imputation via
        fully Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding and name supplements"
        <DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adc9824>.  The package also incorporates
        the data described in Rosenman, Olivella, and Imai (2023) "Race
        and ethnicity data for first, middle, and surnames"
        <DOI:10.1038/s41597-023-02202-2>.
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru
BugReports: https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0), utils
Imports: cli, dplyr, tidyr, furrr, future, piggyback (>= 0.1.4),
        PL94171, purrr, Rcpp, rlang
Suggests: covr, reticulate, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tidycensus
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: yes
LazyDataCompression: xz
LazyLoad: yes
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev
        git make libicu-dev libuv1-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev
        libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev libx11-dev
Repository: https://alarm-redist.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-05-09 02:59:48 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/kosukeimai/wru
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 96995a9aa1d768860b8504036bc3afeb8a9bc155
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-07-08 07:53:58 UTC; root
Author: Kabir Khanna [aut],
  Brandon Bertelsen [aut, cre],
  Santiago Olivella [aut],
  Evan Rosenman [aut],
  Alexander Rossell Hayes [aut],
  Kosuke Imai [aut],
  Noah Dasanaike [aut]
Maintainer: Brandon Bertelsen <brandon@bertelsen.ca>