Two-way tables of data, etc

xtabs(content ~ block + treat)

is almost what you gave, better labelled.

The obvious (to me) tools are xtabs and ftable to flatten arrays.

Yes, excellent. Thank you.

The beginning of the xtabs documentation is a little misleading, though, as it
runs

xtabs
{base}                                                                   
           R Documentation
Cross Tabulation
Description

Create a contingency table from cross-classifying factors, usually contained
in a data frame, using a formula interface. 

and I normally expect a contingency table to contain counts.


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