Slowly finding more :) issues, will move to draft sorry @cicdguy

so far:

• remotes was called before installed
• we get API rate limiting on devtools::install_github. I see we are passing through a github pat, but maybe repo tokens aren't that great. switched to install from git to bypass the github API
• now ran into devtools being missing- which is weird, will see why

CLA Assistant Lite bot:
🎉 Thank you for your contribution! Before this PR can be accepted, we require that you all read and agree to our Contributor License Agreement.
You can digitally sign the CLA by posting a comment on this Pull Request in the format shown below. This agreement will apply to this PR as well as all future contributions on this repository.

I have read the CLA Document and I hereby sign the CLA

1 out of 2 committers have signed the CLA.
✅ (cicdguy)[https://github.com/cicdguy]
❌ @epijim
_{You can retrigger this bot by commenting recheck in this Pull Request}