Is there a way to use read.csv to read from a string value rather than a file in R?

Question

I'm writing an R package where the R code talks to a Java application. The Java application outputs a CSV formatted string and I want the R code to be able to directly read the string and convert it into a data.frame.

user_7717664 · Answer

Using a tidyverse approach, you can just specify a text value

library(readr)
read_csv(file = "col1, col2
foo, 1
bar, 2")
# A tibble: 2 x 2
 col1   col2
   
1 foo       1
2 bar       2

Is there a way to use read.csv to read from a string value rather than a file in R?

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