pathway_annotation() long runtime, connecting to KEGG database

[erikpark]

Question: Is there a, general, expected runtime for the KEGG database connection step of the pathway_annotation() command?

This is my first time using the package, and I am passing (what I think is) a relatively small number of features, 228, to the annotation step - yet it's been running at the "We are connecting to the KEGG database to get the latest results, please wait patiently." step for ~6 hours.

If this runtime is expected, would it be possible to download the annotations ourselves and pass them to the annotation() command locally?

Thanks for any help you can provide!