for detailed descriptions of the algorithm & methodolgy please have a look at:
Empirical Orthogonal Teleconnections
H. M. van den Dool, S. Saha, Å Johansson
Journal of Climate, Volume 13, Issue 8 (April 2000) pp. 1421-1435
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0442%282000%29013%3C1421%3AEOT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
Empirical methods in short-term climate prediction
H. M. van den Dool
Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York (2007)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empirical-methods-in-short-term-climate-prediction-9780199202782?cc=de&lang=en&
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install and load the devtools package.
For the stable release version of remote use
install.packages("remote")
To install the development version use
install_github("environmentalinformatics-marburg/remote", ref = "develop")
Please file bug reports and feature requests at https://github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/remote/issues