[GenABEL-dev] extremely long package load time due to checkPackageVersionOnCRAN() call on package load

[Yurii Aulchenko]

I think this is very reasonable request.

How do you think it should look like - something like an extra argument to
"library", e.g.

library(GenABEL) does version checks, but something like

library(GenABEL,versionCheck=FALSE) does not?

We should also probably change the "timeout = 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).

Yurii

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Karl Forner <karl.forner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We use a lot GenABEL, and we have a very annoying issue with very long
> package load time.
> We figured out it was due to the checkPackageVersionOnCRAN() on package
> load.
> If the website is down, or if our own network or http proxy has issues, we
> have to wait until the timeout expires.
>
> 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
> 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
> just to knwo if we have the latest version.
>
> So we would like that either you disable this feature, or you make it
> optional, or you provide a mechanism to disable it.
>
> Do you think this is a reasonable request ?
> If you agree, we could even try to help you implement it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Karl Forner
>
>
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