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
Wilcox-Off?
3 messages · R. Michael Weylandt, Peter Ehlers, William Dunlap
On 2013-03-05 14:51, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
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
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
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.
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
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Ehlers Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:59 PM To: R. Michael Weylandt Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] Wilcox-Off? On 2013-03-05 14:51, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
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
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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