Assuming you have a means of distinguishing which values are in which unit, you should be able to convert them to your preferred unit by multiplying/dividing the "foreign" units by the appropriate coefficients (e.g. square feet to square meters, square feet to acres or vice versa – basically any unit conversion you could want can be found in various online unit-conversion calculators).
It sounds like the variable name right now is a bit of a misnomer. You should probably give it a name that doesn't imply that they're all in the same unit to avoid confusion.
See the Quick-R article for Creating new variables for how to do so using base R, or the dplyr::mutate() docs if you choose to do so in the tidyverse.