February 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 -
- -Since the program produces many output files, we suggest to
-have a separate directory for imach. A classical installation for Windows is on Program Files\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. 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
-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 version 0.96d February 2004 can be downloaded in zip file
-http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-096d.zip
-
-
-Imach version 0.97b of June 2004 can be downloaded as a setup.exe file
-
-http://euroreves.ined.fr/imach/imach-0.97b-setup.exe. The IMaCh
-program and gnuplot will be installed in the directory that you want
-(usually in Program Files).
-
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 + + + + + +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.
+
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 imach0.98nV.dmg (md5sum + e2256e6bd4e6f944f17b6be366ce375c). 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.
+
+
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. + + + + +