[R] Wilcox-Off?

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 23:51:45 CET 2013


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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