diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 1c12e9d..19c98b7 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 name = "RDatasets"
 uuid = "ce6b1742-4840-55fa-b093-852dadbb1d8b"
-version = "0.7.7"
+version = "0.7.8"
 
 [deps]
 CSV = "336ed68f-0bac-5ca0-87d4-7b16caf5d00b"
 CodecZlib = "944b1d66-785c-5afd-91f1-9de20f533193"
 DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 FileIO = "5789e2e9-d7fb-5bc7-8068-2c6fae9b9549"
-Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
 RData = "df47a6cb-8c03-5eed-afd8-b6050d6c41da"
 Reexport = "189a3867-3050-52da-a836-e630ba90ab69"
 
diff --git a/src/RDatasets.jl b/src/RDatasets.jl
index 69d94c2..547b300 100644
--- a/src/RDatasets.jl
+++ b/src/RDatasets.jl
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module RDatasets
         @eval Base.Experimental.@optlevel 1
     end
 
-    using Reexport, RData, CSV, CodecZlib
+    using Reexport, FileIO, CSV, CodecZlib
     @reexport using DataFrames
 
     export dataset
diff --git a/src/dataset.jl b/src/dataset.jl
index 494fe00..8cd8368 100644
--- a/src/dataset.jl
+++ b/src/dataset.jl
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ function dataset(package_name::AbstractString, dataset_name::AbstractString)
 
     rdaname = joinpath(basename, string(dataset_name, ".rda"))
     if isfile(rdaname)
-        return load(rdaname)[dataset_name]
+        if isdefined(FileIO, :action)
+            # FileIO >= 1.6
+            return load(File{format"RData"}(rdaname))[dataset_name]
+        else
+            # FileIO < 1.6
+            return load(File(format"RData", rdaname))[dataset_name]
+        end
     end
 
     csvname = joinpath(basename, string(dataset_name, ".csv.gz"))