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How to convert time (mm:ss) to decimal form

I've imported a CSV file to R using RStudio where I am trying to plot points per game against minutes per game. However the minutes per game is in the format mm: ss and I'm having a hard time finding how to convert it to decimal form.

Solution

  • Given that you start with a character vector, this is relatively easy :

    minPerGame <- c("4:30","2:20","34:10")

sapply(strsplit(minPerGame,":"),
  function(x) {
    x <- as.numeric(x)
    x[1]+x[2]/60
    }
)

    gives

    [1]  4.500000  2.333333 34.166667

    Make sure you checked that you used read.csv() with the option as.is=TRUE. Otherwise you'll have to convert using as.character().