Convert hours and minuets into minuets in R

I have a vector of event times in the form of hours, minuets and seconds but i now wish to convert these all to minuets, for example 01:02:18 would become 62.

my data

times
"01:02:18" "01:47:37" "01:18:48" "01:32:54" "01:09:41" "01:50:30"

code tried with no joy

time = format(strptime(matchtime,"%H:%M:%S"),'%M')

Guess something could be done by adding the hours and minuets but unsure on how to do this too

>Solution :

If we want to extract the minutes and hours

library(lubridate)
v1 <- hms(times)
v1@hour * 60 + v1@minute
[1]  62 107  78  92  69 110

Or to include the seconds as well

period_to_seconds(hms(times))/60
[1]  62.30000 107.61667  78.80000  92.90000  69.68333 110.50000