[ESS] Developing R packages under ESS

[Vitalie Spinu]

>> Just start R inside package directory and start eval-ing stuff as you
>> normally do.

> Do you mean that R must be launched from inside the package directory?

I was imprecise. No, R process could be run from anywhere. It's that
ess-r-package-mode is active only within the package directory.

> I haven't been using devtools,

It's an implementation detail. We are relying on devtools because it's
convenient. For most commands (install, check etc) we could have done
without.

 Vitalie