Repeat each row of data.frame the number of times specified in a column

ghz 1years ago ⋅ 4558 views

Question

df <- data.frame(var1 = c('a', 'b', 'c'), var2 = c('d', 'e', 'f'),
                 freq = 1:3)

What is the simplest way to expand each row the first two columns of the data.frame above, so that each row is repeated the number of times specified in the column 'freq'?

In other words, go from this:

df
  var1 var2 freq
1    a    d    1
2    b    e    2
3    c    f    3

To this:

df.expanded
  var1 var2
1    a    d
2    b    e
3    b    e
4    c    f
5    c    f
6    c    f

Answer

Here's one solution:

df.expanded <- df[rep(row.names(df), df$freq), 1:2]

Result:

    var1 var2
1      a    d
2      b    e
2.1    b    e
3      c    f
3.1    c    f
3.2    c    f
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