GITHUB_PAT for R

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R programming
Scientific Computing R page

User Installed packages with devtools::install_github()
Github is getting picky about anonymous downloads. install_github() can produce this error.

API rate limit exceeded for 140.107.222.79. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)

Solution, user needs to generate a github token. https://github.com/settings/tokens
Do we have best practices for storing GitHub tokens? I keep min in ~/.ssh

~/.Rprofile
GITHUB_PAT=ghp_...

Dan
for review