I didn't see any error when I ran your code in my computer: > numbers <- c(1134,956,328,529,435,599,27,99) > dim(numbers) <- c(2,2,2) > numbers , , 1
[,1] [,2] [1,] 1134 328 [2,] 956 529 , , 2 [,1] [,2] [1,] 435 27 [2,] 599 99 > dimnames(numbers)[[3]] <-list("Mussels", "No Mussels") > dimnames(numbers)[[2]] <- list("Flow", "No Flow") > dimnames(numbers)[[1]] <- list("Depth1", "Depth2") > ftable(numbers) Mussels No Mussels Depth1 Flow 1134 435 No Flow 328 27 Depth2 Flow 956 599 No Flow 529 99 > as.data.frame.table(numbers) Var1 Var2 Var3 Freq 1 Depth1 Flow Mussels 1134 2 Depth2 Flow Mussels 956 3 Depth1 No Flow Mussels 328 4 Depth2 No Flow Mussels 529 5 Depth1 Flow No Mussels 435 6 Depth2 Flow No Mussels 599 7 Depth1 No Flow No Mussels 27 8 Depth2 No Flow No Mussels 99 > frame <- as.data.frame.table(numbers) > names(frame) <- c("wd", "wv", "MP", "Count") > frame wd wv MP Count 1 Depth1 Flow Mussels 1134 2 Depth2 Flow Mussels 956 3 Depth1 No Flow Mussels 328 4 Depth2 No Flow Mussels 529 5 Depth1 Flow No Mussels 435 6 Depth2 Flow No Mussels 599 7 Depth1 No Flow No Mussels 27 8 Depth2 No Flow No Mussels 99 > attach(frame) > model1 <- glm(Count~MP+wd+wv,poisson) > summary(model1) Call: glm(formula = Count ~ MP + wd + wv, family = poisson) Deviance Residuals: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2.5545 -7.0682 -0.1343 7.4889 1.0555 5.7533 -11.0107 -4.2551 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|) (Intercept) 6.95668 0.02631 264.414 < 2e-16 *** MPNo Mussels -0.93237 0.03466 -26.900 < 2e-16 *** wdDepth2 0.12629 0.03127 4.039 5.37e-05 *** wvNo Flow -1.15626 0.03657 -31.618 < 2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 (Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1) Null deviance: 2279.76 on 7 degrees of freedom Residual deviance: 286.14 on 4 degrees of freedom AIC: 355.18 Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 4 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Three-dimensional-contingency-table-tp2398915p2399062.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.