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where I had to add "digest" to the list to get the install to work. (P.S., and just updated this in this website)
I tried the described install of the eol packages, but this failed, so I had to go to source. I saw that Gary had installed R to ~daq/R, so following the instructions at: https://wiki.eol.ucar.edu/sew/R/EOL, I did:
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