[MINC-users] RMINC v0.4

[Jason Lerch]

Hello Jim (and others),

you're right, the libraries need to be compiled as dynamic libs (or with 
the -fPIC option to GCC if you really want them static). As for the 
second part - I thought I had fixed the necessity for '--enable-minc2', 
but it looks like I was wrong. I'll check and fix that - thanks for 
pointing it out.

Cheers,

Jason

EJ Nikelski wrote:
> Thanks Jason,
>
>     Building RMINC on my MacBook, I found a couple of things that
> might be worth noting:
>
> (1) Make sure that your minc libraries are built as shared/dynamic ...
> as R needs to be able to load the minc2 library dynamically.  Note the
> the hdf5 and netcdf libs also need to be dynamic, else the configure
> script complains and falls over.  This caught me, as I like to build
> only static libs ... which I will now stop doing.
>
> (2) I had better luck installing the package with the following:
>
>   
>>> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-build-path=/path/to/minc2
>>>       
> --enable-minc2' RMINC_0.4.tar.gz
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2008 6:18 PM, Jason Lerch <jason at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> RMINC v0.4 is available for those who care. A quick summary of what's
>> new:
>>
>> * easier to use linear models and file writing utilities.
>> * descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, etc.) that can be
>> split by random groupings.
>> * better incorporation of False Discovery Rate thresholding.
>>
>> (For those who've never heard of RMINC: it is a package to allow
>> voxel-wise statistics to be performed inside R, an open source
>> statistics program/toolbox).
>>
>> The code is available here:
>>
>> https://code.launchpad.net/rminc/1.0/0.4
>>
>> To install, download the tarball, and run 'R CMD INSTALL
>> RMINC_0.4.tar.gz --configure-args=/path/to/minc2' If you want to
>> install it a nondefault location, set the R_LIBS environment variable
>> first.
>>
>> You'll also find a PDF file in the same place which is an early stage
>> version of a mini-booklet describing how to use RMINC. Plenty of
>> examples in there to help you get started, though the actual text is
>> still, um, rather incomplete.
>>
>> The RMINC project is now hosted on Ubuntu's launchpad site:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/rminc
>>
>> There are tools there for asking questions, reporting bugs, and
>> suggesting blue-prints for wanted functionality. Please do use them -
>> I'd love to hear about bugs and am quite happy to listen to suggestions
>> (i.e. blueprints) for what RMINC should be able to do. Though I won't
>> promise to get it all done by tomorrow!
>>
>> For all those MINC developers out there: how about moving some of the
>> other public MINC tools and libraries to launchpad? Seems to make code
>> sharing, bug reporting, etc. quite easy without requiring us to
>> reinvent the wheel on some server in Montreal. Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jason
>>
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