Setup Instructions - Windows

If you want to edit this website locally on Windows, here are the setup instructions:

1. Create a free GitHub if you don’t have one already. Enabling 2fa is recommended (and may be required by your organization.)
2. Follow the Quarto “Get Started” instructions to install Quarto on your system.
3. Install R
4. Install RStudio
5. Install RTools
6. Install Git
   • Verify install worked with git --version in your command prompt, which should produce a version number
7. Install uv
8. Clone the relevant GitHub repository to your local computer
   • If you have write access to https://github.com/NIH-ODSS/fhir-for-research, use this repo
   • Otherwise, create a fork
9. Install Python3 and Python environment:
   • In Command Prompt, run uv sync
   • Alternatively: you can run uv export --format requirements.txt to generate a requirements.txt file and use your own Python tooling. This way is not recommended.
10. Open RStudio, go to “File > Open Project…”, and navigate to the folder of your cloned repo. You should see a fhir-for-research.Rproj file in this folder – if you do, that’s the right folder.
11. Run renv::restore() in the R Console to load all the R dependencies

Note: Running quarto check in your command prompt will return what components of Quarto have been installed properly and where there might be issues.