Population Health Modelling Consensus Reporting Network for Noncommunicable Diseases (POPCORN-NCD)

Developing an internationally agreed-upon reporting guideline for noncommunicable disease modeling studies.

Website: https://big-life-lab.github.io/popcorn-web/

Requirements

• Quarto (latest version recommended)
• TinyTeX: quarto install tinytex
• R >= 4.2.0

Setup

This project uses renv for R package management.

After cloning the repository:

# Restore R package environment
renv::restore()

After adding new R packages:

# Update the lockfile
renv::snapshot()

Important for renv:

• Commit renv.lock, .Rprofile, and renv/activate.R
• Do NOT commit renv/library/, renv/staging/, or renv/local/

Development

Local Preview

quarto preview

Opens a live preview that updates automatically with changes.

Build Locally

quarto render

Generates static files in the docs/ directory.

Publishing

The site automatically publishes to GitHub Pages when changes are pushed to the main branch via GitHub Actions.

Contact

Doug Manuel, Senior Scientist, The Ottawa Hospital (dmanuel@ohri.ca)