Try setting the 'correct' argument to FALSE (similar to CORRECT=NO option in the SAS documentation).

The p-values are then identical, although the W values are different.

Additionally I cannot understand why you get a warning from R that it cannot compute exact p-values because of ties, while the SAS documentation states that "Because the sample size is small, the large-sample normal approximation might not be adequate, and it is appropriate to compute the exact test." And yet, the p-value from R is identical to the two-sided p-values with the normal approximation...?!

Another oddity is the legend of the SAS output, which does not correspond to the data in the output itself (but corresponds to the R values with correct=TRUE)!

Could the SAS documentation have some errors? I don't have SAS installed so cannot test the code.

Ivan

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On 21/04/2017 14:37, Tripoli Massimiliano wrote:
Dear R users,
Why the result of Wilcoxon sum rank test by R is different from sas

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63033/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_npar1way_sect022.htm

The code is next:

sampleA <- c(1.94, 1.94, 2.92, 2.92, 2.92, 2.92, 3.27, 3.27, 3.27, 3.27,
         3.7, 3.7, 3.74)

sampleB <- c(3.27, 3.27, 3.27, 3.7, 3.7, 3.74)
wilcox.test(A,B,paired = F)


Thanks in advance

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