Programmatically Navigate in Navigation Drawer set up with Navigation Component

Question

Can anyone help me out with this?

I currently have a Navigation Drawer that is setup with Navigation Component in my MainActivity

Code:

   val navHostFragment =
            supportFragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.nav_host_fragment) as NavHostFragment
        navController = navHostFragment.navController
        appBarConfiguration = AppBarConfiguration(
            setOf(
                R.id.fragment1,
                R.id.fragment2,
                R.id.fragment3
            
            ), layoutDrawer
        )

        NavigationUI.setupActionBarWithNavController(this, navController, appBarConfiguration)
        navView.setupWithNavController(navController)

What I want:

I want to programmatically navigate to a specific fragment without the use of R.id.action since I will be writing the code in the MainActivity which is not part of my NavGraph

Something like

navController.navigate(R.id.fragment3) 

would be nice