Adding a .CSV file to excel as a sheet in R - r

I'm able to add a dataframe to excel as a separate sheet. However, I want to be able to add a .CSV file that is already created as a sheet.
Code that works to add dataframe as a sheet:
library(xlsx)
write.xlsx(dataframe, file = excelFileName,
sheetName=excelsheetname, append=TRUE,row.names = FALSE)
I need to be able to replicate the same thing as above. However, instead of a dataframe, it is a .CSV file. Is there a solution?
Thanks

It seems like the only step missing in your solution is to first read the CSV file into a dataframe using read.csv or read.table:
library(xlsx)
dataframe <- read.csv(csv)
write.xlsx(dataframe, file = excelFileName,
sheetName=excelsheetname, append=TRUE,row.names = FALSE)
If you specifically want to add a csv to an excel sheet without first reading it in then that is another story, and you should clarify it in your question.

The following works and suits my needs.
csvDF = read.csv(file = csvFileName, as.is = 1,stringsAsFactors = FALSE, header = FALSE)
write.xlsx(csvDF , file = excelFileName,sheetName=sheetNameInfo, append=TRUE,row.names = FALSE, col.names = FALSE)

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library("readxl")
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install.packages("readxl")

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