Hi Jeremy,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I think I did try that but it was 2AM so I do not recall whether I have done it.
Anyway I have retested the web scrapping by using html.nodes and it does export the child tables. Although not correctly. For instance lots and lots or special chars i.e. \t and \n are present in the output and the date is unreadable.
On a manual inspection of the pages, I did notice inconsistency in the HTML formatting. For instance, I did notice tables within tables.
Considering that are about 170 web pages I believe I am going to use an external tool to extract those tables then trying to import the data in RStudio . . . . I may also make public the code and work-around.
Thank you