[R] Converting an ftable (contingency table) to a dataframe in R

[Mark Alen]

I am generating an ftable (by running ftable on the results of a xtabs command) and I am getting the following.
                                                                   Var1  Var2
date                 group                                                
2007-01-01          q1                                              1    9
                     q2                                              2    8
                     q3                                              3    7
2007-01-02          q1                                              6    6
                     q2                                              7    5
                     q3                                              8    4

I understand that it is a ftable class but I'd like to store is as the following. I am wondering if there is any efficient way of doing it in R?
date                 group                                        Var1  Var2         
2007-01-01          q1                                              1    9
2007-01-01          q2                                              2    8
2007-01-01          q3                                              3    7
2007-01-02          q1                                              6    6
2007-01-02          q2                                              7    5
2007-01-02          q3                                              8    4



I don't know how this email will look in the mailing list so I have also asked it here 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6462769/converting-an-ftable-contingency-table-to-a-dataframe-in-r