[R] Wilcox-Off?

[William Dunlap]

> 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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