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
.
Examples
# Coerce a character vector to numeric without throwing a warning
force_num(x = c(2, "A", 4))
#> [1] 2 NA 4