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 2015
+ + 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 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).
+
+
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".
+
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 to insert in other +documents. + + +
+You can download below a dmg file, for example imach0.98nX.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. 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 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
+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
+editing/viewing the results (with your browser) or "q" for quit.
+
+
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 2015) You +can download below a binary tar file for +respectively a 32 bits or 64 bits Linux bo, for example: +imach-Linux-0.98q4-linux-i586-bin.tar.bz2 and +imach-Linux-0.98q4-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. + +
+
| 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
+ +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, +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) + for help, comments and + reports on the performance (see the Performance section of + the wiki). Archives can be accessed at https://listes.ined.fr/arc/imach-users +
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 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. + + + + +