force_num {supportR}

Force Coerce to Numeric

Description

Coerces a vector into a numeric vector and automatically silences ⁠NAs introduced by coercion⁠ warning. Useful for cases where non-numbers are known to exist in vector and their coercion to NA is expected / unremarkable. Essentially just a way of forcing this coercion more succinctly than wrapping as.numeric in suppressWarnings.

Usage

force_num(x = NULL)

Arguments

x

(non-numeric) vector containing elements to be coerced into class numeric

Value

(numeric) vector of numeric values

Examples

# Coerce a character vector to numeric without throwing a warning
force_num(x = c(2, "A", 4))