Published

October 24, 2025

Let’s get started

To conduct this training you will need to install some tools:

  1. Download and install R
  2. Download and install an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in general we use R studio, but feel free to use the IDE that you prefer. Other interesting IDEs might be: Positron or Visual Studio Code.
  3. Make sure you have the required packages installed:
install.packages("pak")
pak::pkg_install(c("CDMConnector", "CodelistGenerator", "duckdb"))
  1. Create a GitHub account if you don’t have one.
  2. Ask to be added to the oxford-pharmacoepi GitHub organisation.
  3. Download and install GitHub Desktop.
  4. Log in to the GitHub Desktop with your GitHub account.

You are all set :)