Expand ranges defined by “from” and “to” columns

Question

I have a data frame containing \"name\" of U.S. Presidents, the years when they start and end in office, (\"from\" and \"to\" columns

Answer 1

Another option using tidyverse could be to gather data into long format, group_by name and create a sequence between from and to date.

library(tidyverse)

presidents %>%
  gather(key, date, -name) %>%
  group_by(name) %>%
  complete(date = seq(date[1], date[2]))%>%
  select(-key) 

# A tibble: 22 x 2
# Groups:   name [3]
#   name          date
#           
# 1 Barack Obama  2009
# 2 Barack Obama  2010
# 3 Barack Obama  2011
# 4 Barack Obama  2012
# 5 Bill Clinton  1993
# 6 Bill Clinton  1994
# 7 Bill Clinton  1995
# 8 Bill Clinton  1996
# 9 Bill Clinton  1997
#10 Bill Clinton  1998
# … with 12 more rows