R help - Mar 2013 - Wilcox-Off?

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

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