Pretty time

Convert seconds into a human readable format

Usage

pretty_time(seconds)

Arguments

seconds

number of seconds to prettify

Value

string containing the 'pretty' time

Details

Recognises when to present as:

• seconds

• minutes and seconds

• hours, minutes and seconds

It will show seconds until 119 seconds, then minutes until 119 minutes, then hours. It doesn't do days or higher yet, but could be adapted to do so if there's demand.

See also

comma_sep() round_five_up() as.POSIXct()

Other prettying: pretty_filesize(), pretty_num(), pretty_num_table(), pretty_time_taken()

Examples

pretty_time(1)
#> [1] "1 second"
pretty_time(8)
#> [1] "8 seconds"
pretty_time(888)
#> [1] "14 minutes 48 seconds"
pretty_time(88888888)
#> [1] "24,691 hours 21 minutes 28 seconds"
pretty_time(c(60, 2, 88, 88888888))
#> [1] "60 seconds"                         "2 seconds"                         
#> [3] "88 seconds"                         "24,691 hours 21 minutes 28 seconds"