Filling missing dates in a grouped time series - a tidyverse-way?

tidyr has some great tools for these sorts of problems. Take a look at complete.

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(lubridate)

want <- df.missing %>% 
  ungroup() %>%
  complete(nesting(d1, d2), date = seq(min(date), max(date), by = "day"))

want %>% filter(d1 == "A" & d2 == 5) 

#> # A tibble: 10 x 5
#>        d1    d2       date         v1        v2
#>    <fctr> <dbl>     <date>      <dbl>     <dbl>
#>  1      A     5 2017-01-01         NA        NA
#>  2      A     5 2017-01-02 0.21879954 0.1335497
#>  3      A     5 2017-01-03 0.32977018 0.9802127
#>  4      A     5 2017-01-04 0.23902573 0.1206089
#>  5      A     5 2017-01-05 0.19617465 0.7378315
#>  6      A     5 2017-01-06 0.13373890 0.9493668
#>  7      A     5 2017-01-07 0.48613541 0.3392834
#>  8      A     5 2017-01-08 0.35698708 0.3696965
#>  9      A     5 2017-01-09 0.08498474 0.8354756
#> 10      A     5 2017-01-10         NA        NA

package tsibble function fill_gaps should do the job easily.

library(tsibble)
df.missing %>% 
  # tsibble format
  as_tsibble(key = c(d1, d2), index = date) %>% 
  # fill gaps
  fill_gaps(.full = TRUE)