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

[Yurii Aulchenko]

>> library(GenABEL,versionCheck=FALSE) does not?
>
> Sounds like a good plan. Is this possible?
>

:) Looking at the help, this does not seem to be straightforward
actually. Hope Karl has some idea!

>>
>> 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.
>

Ok, changing to 5 for the next release

Yurii

>
> 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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