Some of the functions that might be useful.
plate <- well_plate(8, 12)
plate$value <- seq(nrow(plate))
well_df_to_mat(plate, "value")
#> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10] [,11] [,12]
#> [1,] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
#> [2,] 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
#> [3,] 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
#> [4,] 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
#> [5,] 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
#> [6,] 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72
#> [7,] 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84
#> [8,] 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96