r - Contingency table once against multiple table -

i have table following:

v1  v2  v3  v4  v5  v6  v7  v8  v9 v10 fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve mdm mdm mdm fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve mdm fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve fve 

and count frequence column 1 against , this:

    fve mdm fve 25  2 mdm 18  0 

is possible ? tried table() , ftable() output not corresponding i'm expecting.

slightly different option is

table(df1[,1][row(df1[-1])], unlist(df1[-1]))  #     fve mdm # fve  25   2 # mdm  18   0