WKT to sp objects

Hello list,

Does anyone know of a nice way to convert WKT strings to sp Spatial
objects? The list archives don't turn up anything conclusive beyond
the possibility of doing it using rgeos, but I was wondering if anyone
knew of a more 'stable', all R way of doing it?

I found a blog post for some desktop GIS that did it by having the
WKT in a CSV file, and then an OGR virtual vector file which specified
having its data in the CSV in WKT format.

http://www.mail-archive.com/jump-users at lists.jump-project.org/msg00124.html

 For all-R solution, you'd have to build the two files and then read
them with readOGR. Or is there anything in the gdal C code exposed
that does it?

Barry