August 2014
+July 2017
Main publication concerning the method is
-Lièvre A., Brouard N. and Heathcote Ch. (2003) Estimating Health Expectancies
+ Â 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
+ Current versions July 2017
-
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 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
@@ -74,44 +74,41 @@ 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.
-
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".
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. +It take a litle more time to get version of Gnuplot 5+ for Mac OS/X +and to compile it on a MaC. Currently graphs are output as svg +because the svg format is scalable and thus figures are easier to +improve and to insert in other documents. Sometimes the svg file is to +big and is replaced by a png binary file. But you can get any other +format with gnuplot (for example, on Emacs with gnuplot-mode, just +edit the .gp file, send the first "cd " line to change to current +directory, move to corresponding line of the plot, send the plot line +to gnuplot, visualize on the screen, change the terminal as well as +plot file names).
-You can download a dmg file - at imach0.98nX.dmg (md5sum - ff9d2389abc2d3ce106203d89fd096d4). Like on Windows, two - sub-directories are created +You can download below a dmg file, for example imach0.99X.dmg and install + it. Like on Windows, two sub-directories are created bin and html . In the bin subdirectory you will find two executables imach itself and - gnuplot. - + gnuplot. With recent versions, this tree is embedded in + an Application.
You need to click on imach application and IMaCh will be -launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter +launched in a Terminal window, asking you to enter the name of 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 @@ -203,93 +215,207 @@ 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.
+editing/viewing the results (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.
+
You can use the finder
+ or browser (there is no more difference now) and click on the main
+ .html (or .htm) file created. The name of this main
+ html file is the same name as your parameter file, only the
+ extension .imach is changed to .html. If you slightly change the
+ parameters, you just have to give another name and the new
+ results will not override the former.
-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 +New (July 2017) You +can download below a binary rpm file for a 64 +bits Linux, for example: imach-0.99r14-1.x86-64.rpm + +
The Windows binaries have been compiled with native Intel Compiler +on my OS/X Mac using Virtual Box and a Windows 8. 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). + including graphs generated by gnuplot will appear. +
Differences between efficiency of binary versions, related to +former errors in the likelihood optimizations algorithms, have be +discussed at + REVES 2015 meeting in Singapore. +
| OS | +OS subtype | +Version | +Compiler | +File to download | +MD5 cheksum | +|
| Windows | +32&64bits | +0.98p0 | +Intel Compiler 2015 with VisualStudio2013 | +imach-0.98p0-ilc-setup.exe | +c4c8d47d24c76f6d2a5b0bfc52c43395 | +|
| 0.98q0 | +Intel Compiler 2015 with VisualStudio2013 | +imach-0.98q0-ilc-setup.exe | +a7d40b3288d84187633a07289492f7dd | +|||
| OS/X | +64 bits | +0.98p0 | +Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) | +imach0.98p0.dmg | +94e75fe3d141d9e5394ce3c53b98b987 | +|
| 0.98q0 | +Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.56) | +imach0.98q0.dmg | +b4dbd03d9bb2039cfc6a013411789ad6 | +|||
| Linux | +64bits | +0.98p0 | +gcc-4.8.1-for-linux64 | +imach-Linux-0.98p0-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2 | +0974bcf30596f94f97d0e80acaf5a1bb | +|
| 64bits | +0.98q0 | +gcc-4.8.1-for-linux64 | +imach-Linux-0.98q0-linux-x86-64-bin.tar.bz2 | +769f1153e78e6dd34d483aaa9fddd50b | +||
| 32bits | +0.98p0 | +gcc-4.8.1-for-linux32 | +imach-Linux-0.98p0-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2 | +034fe6ca6dfeb84eb2d735dea7ad7a9b | +||
| 32bits | +0.98q0 | +gcc-4.8.1-for-linux32 | +imach-Linux-0.98q0-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2 | +0d9c4d982ea43eda4b2dd058441459b3 | +||
Downloads + and bugs reported
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. +
In addition to INED, this software have been partly granted +
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, +software can be distributed freely for non commercial use. We used +some codes from the first book "Numerical Recipes in C" (Press et al, +1992) which is copyrighted. Today, the code of the optimization +programme has been so altered and many bugs have been fixed, +see communication +at the 2015 REVES meeting in Singapore) that we consider that we are +only in debt of the algorithm which has been published. If you want to +get our sources, please ask 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 Latest documentation can be accessed on the wiki 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 -
- -If you ask for help, it is usually easier to send the parameter file, the .log file as well as some records of the datafile. -
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. +
Wikis are a 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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