Hello,<br><br>We use a lot GenABEL, and we have a very annoying issue with very long package load time.<br>We figured out it was due to the checkPackageVersionOnCRAN() on package load.<br>If the website is down, or if our own network or http proxy has issues, we have to wait until the timeout expires.<br>
<br>We are not a big fan anyway of this update feature, at least not by default: suppose that we run thousands of batch jobs a on cluster<br>that does not have internet acces, it does not seem reasonalble to spends minutes for each jobs trying to connect without any hope of success<br>
just to knwo if we have the latest version.<br><br>So we would like that either you disable this feature, or you make it optional, or you provide a mechanism to disable it.<br><br>Do you think this is a reasonable request ? <br>
If you agree, we could even try to help you implement it.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Karl Forner<br><br>