get_chirps is extremely slow

[peetmate]

I have been experimenting with get_chirps today and finding really slow speeds, both locally and on servers.

lonlat<-data.frame(lon=c(-4.314916,-4.225084),lat=c(31.30144 ,31.37854))
dates<-as.character(c("1981-01-02","1981-12-31"))
system.time(data<-chirps::get_chirps(lonlat,
dates=dates,
server = "CHC"))

this took 250sec, but is only 728 rows data