February 2004
+June 2004
Main publication concerning the method is -Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies -from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248 +
Main publication concerning the method is +Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies +from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248
-Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
-have a separate directory for imach.
+
Until June 2004 the installation did consist in a zip file which
+had to be extracted in the directory of your choice. But with version
+0.97b IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup). Both
+executables imach.exe and gnuplot.exe (the grapher
+that we are using) have to be on the same directory.
+
+
In order to facilitate the use of IMaCh we associated the .imach
+extension to two features: editing and running. Thus by right clicking
+on a foo.imach file you can either 'edit'the file (default) with
+the notepad editor or 'run' it with gnuplot (you need a recent version).
+
+ But we discovered that on some computers, people are not allowed
+ to modify the windows registry and need to have Administrator privileges.
+
+
+ Thus we built two windows installer: a standard setup which will install
+ the progam (usually in \Program Files\imach and will
+ modify the registry to associate .imach extension to notepad and imach, and a
+ second which will not alter the registry. With this second installer you
+ will be able to install the programs in your home directory and
+ run it by clicking on the imach.exe icon. But you won't be able
+ to use the facility of the right clicking.
Old Windows versions are accessible here. +
+
+It take a litle more time to get latest version of Gnuplot 4.0 for Mac
+OS/X and to compile it on a MaC. The main problem resides in finding
+the png library. Gif images are patented now and the replacement is
+png, but the development of the png library is growing on its own and
+you just have to find on Google where it is hosted now.
+
+
+Gnuplot can be easily compiled on a MaC, but I don't know yet (July
+2004) which is default screen terminal driver for gnuplot. For sure if
+X11 is installed on your MaC (it is included on your installation CD
+or you can download it from the WEB), the you can do set ter
+X11 and plot sin(x) to get a nice sin curve on an X11
+window of your Mac.
+
+
Let me add that for running IMaCh with all of its features, you don't
+need X11; the gnuplot program included in the distribution needs only
+to have the png terminal driver to output graphs and these graphs will
+be viewed by your browser.
+
+You need X11 only if you want to modify and test the gnuplot code output by
+ImaCh, because it might be a more convenient way to view the graphs
+directly on the screen than writing images on a file and viewing them
+with a browser,
+
+
+You can download a .pkg.pax file at imach097b.pkg.pax. Stuffit + Expander will expand the compressed file into a imach097b.pkg directory. Just + clicking on the directory will let you install IMaCh in a local + directory of your own (you have to create a new folder name IMaCh097b or whatever). Two sub-directories are created + bin and html . In the bin subdirectory you + will find two executables imach itself and + gnuplot. + +
+You need to click on imach and IMaCh will be launched in a + terminal window, asking you to enter a parameter file. A + parameter file is text file with an extension .imach + (but you can use a .txt extension if you want. Among + the parameters required, a data file name has to be entered. It + can be a relative file name like + ../../data/data1.txt. It might also work if you use the + Windows backslash "\" syntax. +
+At the end of the run, and it order for the terminal window not to
+ disappear, the program will prompt for a command like "e" for
+ edit or "q" for quit. The edit command might not work
+ on a MaC, or on Unix or even on recent Windows, because the program should know which
+ browser you are using and becauee the BROWSER environment
+ doesn't seem to be standard on a Mac and on some other OS too.
+
+
The consequence for you is just that you have to use your finder
+ or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the
+ .html (or .htm) file created. The filename of this html
+ file is the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
+ .imach is changed to .html.
+
+
Click here to access to the detailed documentation
This software have been partly granted by Euro-REVES, a concerted -action from the European Union. Our work is copyrighted as -a GNU software product, i.e. program and software -can be distributed freely for non commercial use, but actually some sources are -not widely distributed today because they borrow some code from the book "Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of theses sources you can get our source by asking us with -a simple justification (name, email, Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr
+href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Euro-REVES, a concerted action +from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by the +French Institute on Longevity. Our work is copyrighted as a GNU +software product, i.e. program and software can be distributed freely +for non commercial use, but actually some sources are not widely +distributed today because they borrow some codes from the book +"Numerical Recipes in C" which is copyrighted. If you are an owner of +theses sources you can get our sources by asking us with a simple +justification (name, email, Institute) mailto:imach-dev@listes.ined.fr + -Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library. +
Today we are two developpers only but we already use a private CVS +server. The CVS server will be freely accessible as soon as we have +replaced "Numerical Recipes in C maximization routines" with +equivalent routines from the new GNU scientific library.
Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach
-Imach version (0.63 of 16 march 2000) can be downloaded in zip
-file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach.zip
-Imach version 0.64 May 2001 can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0-64.zip
-
-Imach version 0.8 March 2002 can be downloaded in zip file http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08.zip
-
-Imach version 0.8a May 2002 can be downloaded in zip file
-http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-08a.zip
-
-Imach latest version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file
-http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip
-
New (March 2002). We set up a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. -You can subscribe -by sending a mail to imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr (and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr +
There is a public mailing list of IMaCh's users. You can +subscribe by sending a mail to imach-users-subscribe@listes.ined.fr +(and unsubscribe with imach-users-unsubscribe@listes.ined.fr
+