Importing time (hh:mm:ss) data from Excel to R as minutes

You can read it as text and convert it to minutes later, see this example

library(lubridate)

time <- "33:32:00"
time <- hms(time)
as.numeric(time)/60
#> [1] 2012

Created on 2020-03-08 by the reprex package (v0.3.0.9001)

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