title: Read password protected MS-Word files
body: <p>I have a folder of ~200 MS-word files I would like to read into R. An unknown proportion of these files have been password protected (the passwords follow a simple month-quarter rule so I am able to work them out individually to open the files), which is making it tricky to get them into R. Ideally I am looking for a method that would allow me to read in all the files into R without opening each one in MS-word to remove the password.</p>
  
  <p>I have been using the <code>read_docx</code> and <code>read_dir</code> functions (for individual and multiple files, respectively) in the <code>textreadr</code> package but this does not seem to have a provision for passwords in the same way that the <code>excel.link</code> package does.</p>
  
  <p>Any other package/function recommendations would be much appreciated.</p>