Ms. Chisholm,

If you could tell us how you plan to use the variables, we will have a
better understanding of what you are looking for and will be able to help
you.
Are you looking for the time in seconds? In that case, do as Mr. Holfman
says. He just skipped the part about converting the factors to characters.
You can do that by:
y <- as.character(x) where x is the vector of factors.

Are you looking to have a list of hours, minutes and seconds? That can be
done too...Although it would be much easier to just have hours and min.sec

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Sarah Chisholm <sarah.chisholm.09@ucl.ac.uk
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with the time formatting in R. I have entered time in the
> format "MM:SS.xyz" and R has automatically classified this as a factor, but
> I need it numerically. However when I use as.numeric() it gives me totally
> different numbers. Is there any way I can tell R to read thes input as a
> number?
>
> Thank you very much
>
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