This looks to pass the requirements. I am sure someone can come up with a more eloquent answer. But the tricky parts are related to mostly the step parameter (negative and 0) and backwards movement (end < start) and the fact that it tries to do the "right" thing (stepping from 0 to -3 should not be possible witha step of 1, but it seems to automatically flip the step to be negative [again from reading the tests]).

function range (start, end, step = 1) {
  if (end === undefined && start !== undefined) {
    end = start;
    start = 0;
  }

  // step should be negative if end is less than start
  if (end < start && step > 0) {
     step = step * -1
  }


  // if the step is 0 you will never allocate the correct array length
  const stepSize = (step == 0) ? 1 : step
  const size = Math.abs(Math.ceil((end - start) / stepSize))


  // need to exit if there is nothing to return
  if (size == Infinity) {
    return []
  }

  // step has some really odd behavior (from tests)
  //     specifically a step of 0, which seems to repeat the start?
  const incrementStep = (x, y) =>
        (step == 0) ? start : x + y * step

  return Array(size).
    fill(start).
    map(incrementStep)
}

console.log(range(4)); // => [0, 1, 2, 3]
console.log(range(-4)); // => [0, -1, -2, -3]
console.log(range(1, 5)); // => [1, 2, 3, 4]
console.log(range(0, 20, 5)); // => [0, 5, 10, 15]
console.log(range(0, -4, -1)); // => [0, -1, -2, -3]
console.log(range(1, 4, 0)); // => [1, 1, 1]
console.log(range(0)); // => []

The result you have is correct.

The map function from lodash does not accept a third parameter.

So the range call is not taken in account.

https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.4#map

So, I suggest you to use slice function like this:

import R from 'lodash';
const getJsonData = (offset, limit) => (
    R.slice(
        R.map([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20], x => ({
            title: `title ${x}`,
            subtitle: 'description',
            image_url: 'http://some-img-url.com',
            date: 'date',
            tag: 'tag',
            places: [
                {
                    places: 'places',
                },
            ],
        }))
    , offset, limit + offset)
);

You just need to use the "and" operator which is &&

var result = _.filter(charactersStar, function(o)
    return o.rank > 42 && o.rank <48 ;
});