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 -
- - 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.paw file at imach097b.pkg.pax. Stuffit - Expander will expand compressed imach097b.pkg directory. Just - clicking on the directory will let you install ImaCh in a local - directory of your own. 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 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. 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. - -
Latest documentation can be accessed at http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach
-
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 -
-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. 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. + +
. Please ask for a username and password. + + + + +