/wilks

A wilks points calculator written in R

Primary LanguageR

Wilks points calculator in R

This package contains one function wilks that calculates wilks points.

According to wikipedia, the Wilks Coefficient or Wilks Formula is a coefficient that can be used to measure the strength of a powerlifter against other powerlifters despite the different weights of the lifters. Robert Wilks, CEO of Powerlifting Australia, is the author of the formula.

Formula

The following equation is used to calculate the Wilks Coefficient. The total weight lifted is multiplied by the Coefficient to find the standard amount lifted normalised across all body weights.

Installation

There is no way this will ever be uploaded to CRAN. Install and load with the following.

devtools::install_github("thmcmahon/wilks")
library(wilks)

Usage

wilks(83, 450, 'male')

License

BSD License.