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

[L.C. Karssen]

On 30/08/12 11:35, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
> 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?

Sounds like a good plan. Is this possible?

> 
> 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).

I agree. 5 seconds is more reasonable.


Lennart.

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