Summary and Setup

This is the format of the workshop on OMOP and R that will take place at the UCL Festival of Digital Innovation on July 15th 2025.

It is the initial work on a full Carpentries Course that we will begin to roll out from September.

Prerequisite

A laptop running R and RStudio

This lesson assumes you have current versions of the following installed on your computer:

  1. the R software itself, and
  2. RStudio Desktop.

You also need to download some files to follow this lesson:

  1. Make a new folder in your Desktop called omop_taster.
  2. Download omop-data.zip and move the file to this folder.
  3. If it’s not unzipped yet, unzip it. There should now be a folder called data in the omop_taster folder.
  4. You can access this folder from the Unix shell with:

BASH 

$ cd
$ cd Desktop/omop_taster/data