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

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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