Resources to open Word documents in R...

Extracting data from a docx file:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/docxtractr/docxtractr.pdf

https://www.r-bloggers.com/new-pacakge-docxtractr-easily-extract-tables-from-microsoft-word-docs/

https://rud.is/b/2015/08/24/new-pacakge-docxtractr-easily-extract-tables-from-microsoft-word-docs/



Extracting data from a doc file:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/textreadr/textreadr.pdf

Splitting a character vector into a data frame...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22455884/how-to-split-a-character-vector-into-data-frame

Rowbind when different numbers of columns...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3402371/combine-two-data-frames-by-rows-rbind-when-they-have-different-sets-of-columns