February 2004
- -August 2014
+ +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.
-
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
- -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 -
- - - - \ No newline at end of file +Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies +from Cross-longitudinal surveys. Mathematical Population Studies.- 10(4), pp. 211-248. DOI 10.1080/713644739 + + + 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
+0.98d and above IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup).
+
+
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.
+
The executable for Windows cross-compiled on OS/X with +i386-mingw32-gcc doesn't produce efficient binary compared to native +Visual Studio 2010 (used here). imach-0.98nV-1-setup.exe is compiled +with i386-mingw32-gcc . + +
Old Windows versions are accessible here. +
+ +It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 4.6.5+ for Mac OS/X +and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as png +files. We will probably moved to svg because the svg format is +scalable and thus figures are easier to improve and insert in other documents. + + +
+You can download a dmg file + at imach0.98nX.dmg (md5sum + ff9d2389abc2d3ce106203d89fd096d4). Like on Windows, 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 application and IMaCh will be
+launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter
+a parameter file. A parameter file is a 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.
If you open a new finder you
+can drag an IMaCh parameter file into the terminal IMaCh Window that
+you just created.
+
+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 (with your browser) or "q" for quit.
+
+
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 has the same name as your parameter file, only the extension
+ .imach is changed to .html.
+
+
+New (August 2014) You +can download a binary tar file for respectively a 32 bits or 64 bits +Linux box:
+cf9784f1d3f464b2f0c7ddf2fea84062 imach-Linux-0.98nX-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2
+or +0974bcf30596f94f97d0e80acaf5a1bb imach-Linux-0.98nX-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2
+The binaries have been crosscompiled with gcc on my OS/X Mac. Each +binary contains two directories bin and html/doc +. In the bin subdirectory you will find the imach executable +and in html/doc the biaspar.imach test parameter +file and its corresponding data file data1.txt. In order to +run the test the command is ./bin/imach +./html/doc/biaspar.imach
+ gnuplot should be installed otherwise at the end of the + run (optimization and calculations last at least 7 minutes on + today most efficient hardwares) the command gnuplot + biaspar.gp will fail. If successful, typing e will + open biaspar.htm with your browser and all the results + including graphs generated by gnuplot will appear. Please + subscribe to the mailing + list imach-users@listes.ined.fr for comments and + reports on the performance (see the Performance section of + the wiki). + + +
Click +here to access to the detailed documentation
+ +This software have been partly granted +by Euro-REVES, a concerted +action from the European Union. In 2003-2004 it has been granted by +the French Institute on Longevity. In January 2014, it has been +granted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science +(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 25293121. +
+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. + +
Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/wiki/index.php/Documentation
+
+
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 +
+ +Wikis are a very promising way to give information closer to your expectations. It also a very dynamic movement if you consider the first International Wikimedia Conference in Francfurt (August 2005), where most Wikis were represented and in particular Wikipedia. + +
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