Why are all the calls to Ensembl set to version 80?

[knokknok]

Could it be made an option propagated from makeOrgPackageFromNCBI?

[lshep]

Where are you referring? In other code, in examples, from other functions, a vignette?

for makeOrgPackageFromNCBI man function default/man page, likely that was the release at the time of creation of the package.

[knokknok]

At least there: getFastaSpeciesDirs .getEnsemblData