diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4b44777..545d453 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ Depends:
     R(>= 3.1.0)
 Imports:
     abind,
-    transformeR,
-    RCurl,
+    transformeR(>= 0.0.7),
     parallel
 Suggests:
     visualizeR,
@@ -18,8 +17,8 @@ Suggests:
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Type: Package
 Title: Fire weather index calculation from station and model data
-Version: 1.0.1
-Date: 2017-04-04
+Version: 1.0.2
+Date: 2017-04-07
 Authors@R: as.person(c(
     "Santander Meteorology Group <http://meteo.unican.es> [aut]",
     "Joaquin Bedia <bediaj@unican.es> [ctb, cre]",
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 48447f7..9d1e56d 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 export(fwi1D)
 export(fwiGrid)
-importFrom(RCurl,getURL)
 importFrom(abind,abind)
 importFrom(abind,asub)
 importFrom(parallel,parLapply)
diff --git a/R/onAttach.R b/R/onAttach.R
index d09b665..82bfc72 100644
--- a/R/onAttach.R
+++ b/R/onAttach.R
@@ -1,30 +1,27 @@
 #' @importFrom utils packageDescription
-#' @importFrom RCurl getURL
 
 .onAttach <- function(...) {
-      pkgname <- "fireDanger"
-      lib <- system.file(package = pkgname)
-      ver <- packageDescription(pkgname)$Version
-      builddate <- packageDescription(pkgname)$Date
-      mess <- paste(pkgname, " version ", ver, " (", builddate,") is loaded", sep = "")
-      packageStartupMessage(mess)
-      url <- paste0("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SantanderMetGroup/", pkgname, "/master/DESCRIPTION")
-      con <- tryCatch(getURL(url, ssl.verifypeer = FALSE), error = function(er) {
-            er <- NULL
-            return(er)
-      })
-      if (!is.null(con)) {
-            b <- readLines(textConnection(con))
-            latest.ver <- package_version(gsub("Version: ", "", b[grep("Version", b)]))
-            if (ver < latest.ver) {
-                  ver.mess1 <- paste0("WARNING: Your current version of ", pkgname, " (v", ver, ") is not up-to-date")
-                  ver.mess <- paste0("Get the latest stable version (", latest.ver,
-                                     ") using <devtools::install_github(c('SantanderMetGroup/transformeR','SantanderMetGroup/", pkgname, "'))>")
-                  packageStartupMessage(ver.mess1)
-                  packageStartupMessage(ver.mess)
-            }
-      }
-      packageStartupMessage("Type 'vignette(\"Climate_Services_2017\", package = \"fireDanger\")' for a package overview and worked examples")
+    pkgname <- "fireDanger"
+    ver <- packageDescription(pkgname)$Version
+    builddate <- packageDescription(pkgname)$Date
+    mess <- paste(pkgname, " version ", ver, " (", builddate,") is loaded", sep = "")
+    packageStartupMessage(mess)
+    url <- paste0("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SantanderMetGroup/", pkgname, "/master/DESCRIPTION")
+    b <- tryCatch(suppressWarnings(readLines(url)), error = function(er) {
+        er <- NULL
+        return(er)
+    })
+    if (!is.null(b)) {
+        latest.ver <- package_version(gsub("Version: ", "", b[grep("^Version", b)]))
+        if (ver < latest.ver) {
+            ver.mess1 <- paste0("WARNING: Your current version of ", pkgname, " (v", ver, ") is not up-to-date")
+            ver.mess <- paste0("Get the latest stable version (", latest.ver,
+                               ") using <devtools::install_github('SantanderMetGroup/", pkgname, "')>")
+            packageStartupMessage(ver.mess1)
+            packageStartupMessage(ver.mess)
+        }
+    }
+    packageStartupMessage("Type 'vignette(\"Climate_Services_2017\", package = \"fireDanger\")' for package overview and examples")
 }
 # End