[R] Frequencies from a matrix - spider from frequencies

[Uwe Dippel]

First of all, I really like R! Still being a newbie, I find things (the 
difficult ones) to be very simple.
Alas, some 'simple' things still escape me. (Maybe the tutorials are 
often too much focused on the 'difficult' items??)

Here comes my 'problem', over which I have sweated for the last 2 hours:
My data are of a matrix 10x31, Likert Scale (1-5). 10 questions, 31 
respondents. Now, I want to display the frequencies per question. I have 
not found any better (any more simple) than
for (in in 1.10) print (table(learn[,i]))
And then, still, the scale is printed 10 times as well. I am sure, there 
is a better function, but I didn't find one.
Actually, I would want the scale once, atop ('names'), and then the 
10(questions) * 5 (length.of.scale) thereunder, like
     1 2 3 4 5
1   3 4 2 1 2
2   5 9 2 1 4
3   4 4 6 1 3
....

And, now somewhat less of the ordinary, a spider/radar showing the 
number of responses for each question (circular axis, 10), with the 
frequencies as radial axes. That is, 5 polygons showing the frequencies 
of the responses per each question.

Any help is appreciated, and my excuses for asking a simple question,

Uwe