--- imach/html/index.htm 2014/08/29 08:50:53 1.15 +++ imach/html/index.htm 2015/03/11 17:15:46 1.16 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ +content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> Computing Health Expectancies using IMaCh @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ src="doc/euroreves2.gif" width="151" hei color="#00006A">INED and EUROREVES -

August 2014

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March 2015

@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ href="http://euroreves.ined.fr">Nicolas Brouard, senior researcher at the Institut -National d'Etudes Démographiques +National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED, Paris) in the "Mortality, Health and Epidemiology Research Unit" -

and Agnès Lièvre (former PHD student at INED)

+

and Agnès Lièvre (former PHD student at INED)

Contribution to the mathematics: C. R. Heathcote (Australian @@ -47,23 +47,23 @@ National University, Canberra).brouard@ined.fr)

-

 Main publication concerning the method is -Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies +

 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. DOI 10.1080/713644739

Download and instructions for installation

-

Current versions August 2014

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Current versions March 2015

The grapher that IMaCh uses is gnuplot from http://www.gnuplot.info/. Gnuplot has evolved since version IMaCh 0.98k and therefore you need -at least Gnuplot 4.6. Otherwise you need to adapt the .gp file +at least Gnuplot 4.6.5. Otherwise you need to adapt the .gp file produced in order to run with your old gnuplot. With the installer provided for OS/X and Windows, a recent gnuplot @@ -74,38 +74,35 @@ in your path, it will make a error but w the installers. Using recent gnuplot installations, there is usually a possibility to add the gnuplot binary in your path. -

On Windows (win9X, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)

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On Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8)

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). +0.98d and above IMaCh we are using a windows installer (Inno setup 5.5.5).
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. +
You need to have the Administrator privileges to install the +software. We don't propose anymore an installation which does not +alter registry because we think that you all have access, even +temporarly, to Administrator privileges (usally by right clicking the +.exe you can choose "Install with Administrators privileges".