I think this is very reasonable request.<div><br></div><div>How do you think it should look like - something like an extra argument to "library", e.g. </div><div><br></div><div>library(GenABEL) does version checks, but something like</div>
<div><br></div><div>library(GenABEL,versionCheck=FALSE) does not?</div><div><br></div><div>We should also probably change the "timeout = <span class="s1">10" default value to say 3 or 5 - if everybody agrees I can do that (actually I am in the process of preparing new release, 1.7-1 - will be out in a couple of days).</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Yurii</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Karl Forner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl.forner@gmail.com" target="_blank">karl.forner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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>
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