[R] Wilcox-Off?

[Peter Ehlers]

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