R read.csv data from inline string with a csv file content

Question

this is supposed to be a trivial thing, but I have not found anything googling it.

I have the following data in a csv file

test.csv

var1,var2
'a',1
'b',2

which I read into R with

d <- read.csv('test.csv')

This there a way for me to insert the content of the csv file in my R code? Something like:

d <- read.csv(
    'var1,var2\n
    'a',1\n
    'b',2')

(above syntax does not work)

how can I tell R that the input string should be treated as the data itself instead of a file name containing it?

This would be for adding small tables to Rmarkdown without having to create a bunch of auxiliary files

of course I could add the same info with

d <- data.frame(
  var1=c('a','b'),
  var2=1,2
)

but listing the data vector by vector slow the process down. The row by row structure of the csv is easyer

Answer 1

Try this

CSV_Text = "var1,var2
'a',1
'b',2"

Dat = read.csv(text=CSV_Text, header=TRUE)