Summary and Setup

OMOP Carpentries Course.

This course should provide clinicians and analysts with an introduction to the OMOP Common Data Model and how they can use R to access data and answer clinical questions.

The course is intended to be run over two days in person, or to be self directed online.

We suggest that learners are familiar with R and the tidyverse or do one of the carpentries introductory R courses.

Prerequisite

A laptop

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

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

TODO: update this file with download requirements for the whole course.

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