From ddaf2a8ea41efb97b07814d339aa0f3e618e2492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: saun09 <saundaryasubramaniam@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 18:07:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify installation steps and add Windows test
 instructions

---
 README.md | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2e5d60c4..f3d51d28 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -38,9 +38,23 @@ Instead of trying to accommodate for all these differences and make all the sour
 
 You can install **ocf-data-sampler** for development as follows:
 
+1. **Clone the repository:**
 ``` 
 pip install git+https://github.com/openclimatefix/ocf-data-sampler.git
 ```
+2. **Set up a virtual environment**:
+```
+python -m venv venv
+.\venv\Scripts\activate
+```
+3. **Install with development dependencies:**
+```
+pip install -e ".[dev]"
+```
+4. **Manual Dask Installation : If you encounter a ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dask':**
+```
+pip install dask[complete]
+```
 
 ### Running the test suite
 
@@ -48,8 +62,9 @@ The tests in this project use `pytest`. Once you have it installed, you can run
 
 ```
 cd ocf-data-sampler
-pytest
+pytest 
 ``` 
+Use ```python -m pytest``` to run tests via the python module
 
 ## Contributing and community