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Convert a time period to seconds

Source: R/date_time.R
to_seconds.Rd

Convert number of minutes, hours, days or weeks into seconds. If x is numeric, it is assumed to be in hours.

Usage

to_seconds(x)

Arguments

x

A character or numeric vector. The units of the input is specified by a single character:

  • s seconds

  • m minutes

  • h hours

  • d days

  • w weeks

Value

A named vector where the values are the number of seconds and the names are the equivalent in the units given in the input

Examples

# Numeric inputs are assumed to be in hours
to_seconds(c(0, 1, 2))
#>   0h   1h   2h 
#>    0 3600 7200 

# The same values given in seconds, minutes and explicitly hours
to_seconds(c("0s", "3600s", "7200s"))
#>    0s 3600s 7200s 
#>     0  3600  7200 
to_seconds(c("0m", "60m", "120m"))
#>   0m  60m 120m 
#>    0 3600 7200 
to_seconds(c("0h", "1h", "2h"))
#>   0h   1h   2h 
#>    0 3600 7200 

# Units can be mixed
to_seconds(c(paste0(24 * 7, "h"), "7d", "1w"))
#>   168h     7d     1w 
#> 604800 604800 604800