# Error when installing RDatasets and DataFrames packages

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [December 11, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692 "2020-12-11T23:01:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abdou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@Abdou](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Abdou)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/1 "2020-12-11T23:01:10Z")

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I m new in Julia, when installing RDatasets and DataFrames packages I get an error from GitHub server. Is there any solution for this? Thanks (excuse my little english)

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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/2 "2020-12-11T23:17:58Z")

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Can you please post the error?

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**Author:** ![Abdou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@Abdou](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Abdou)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/3 "2020-12-11T23:32:12Z")

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Here is the error :slight\_smile: ERROR: failed to clone from https://github.com/JuliaData/CSV.jl.git, error: GitE rror(Code:ERROR, Class:OS, failed to read data: Le serveur a renvoyé une réponse non valide ou non reconnue This error is for CSV package and almost the same for DataFrames and RDatasets. Thanks for your reply.

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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 12:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/4 "2020-12-12T00:13:50Z")

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Are you on windows?

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**Author:** ![Abdou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@Abdou](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Abdou)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/5 "2020-12-12T00:54:28Z")

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yes on windows 7 service pack 1

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**Author:** ![pdeffebach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pdeffebach/32/10320_2.png) [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/6 "2020-12-12T01:03:43Z")

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Okay.

Hopefully someone more experienced in the package server can answer this question. Maybe it was just “down” for a bit, and it will work if you try again, but I’m not sure how much I can help.

I’m sorry this is happening!

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**Author:** ![Abdou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@Abdou](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Abdou)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-when-installing-rdatasets-and-dataframes-packages/51692/7 "2020-12-12T01:12:21Z")

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I will try again later thanks for contribution