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Wilcox-Off?

3 messages · R. Michael Weylandt, Peter Ehlers, William Dunlap

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A potentially ridiculous question, but why does R use "wilcox" (e.g.,
pwilcox or wilcox.test) instead of the full name Wilcoxon? I've
browsed (but not scoured) the help files and Peter Dalgaard's book,
but I'm coming up empty.

Purely for brevity or have I missed something massive?

## Reproducible example ;-)

? wilcox.test

## End Reproducible Example

Cheers,
Michael
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On 2013-03-05 14:51, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
I would guess that it's the brevity argument;
witness pnorm, pchisq, punif, ppois, pbinom, phyper, ...

But maybe Kurt knows better since he's down as the author
of pwilcox.

Peter Ehlers
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I can only guess it was the brevity argument also.  The [...]wilcox functions
were added to S+ in June 1990, with no comment on the name choice in
the checkin log, and the R authors probably copied the name from S+.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com