[MINC-users] Introducing RMINC

[Jason Lerch]

Erm, the list doesn't appear to like attachments. So here are the files 
for those who care:

http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/users/jason/RMINC/

Jason

Jason Lerch wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> Here's a new package for those of you doing stats of various sorts as 
> well as anyone who likes R (an open source stats project) - RMINC. It 
> includes functions to read and write MINC2 files, the ability to apply 
> arbitrary R functions at every voxel, and some optimized modelling 
> functions (t-tests, Wilcoxon Rank-sum tests, correlations, and linear 
> models). Read the attached PDF for more details if you are interested.
>
> To install, untar the attached tarball, then install like so:
>
> R CMD INSTALL 
> --configure-args='--with-build-path=/some/dir/with/minc2' RMINC
>
> note that to install this package in a non-default location set the 
> R_LIBS environment variable (and set it to the same directory when 
> starting R to make sure it can read it).
>
> Instructions for use are the in the PDF file. Note that it needs MINC2 
> volumes - it'll probably die with some horrible error if tried with 
> MINC1. Remember that conversion between them is lossless - use 
> mincconvert -2. It can also only deal with three dimensions at this 
> point (if there's enough demand I'll add on 4d stuff).
>
> This is definitely a testing release - I've only tried the attached 
> code on both 32 and 64 bit ubuntu linux. No guarantees, in other 
> words; or, to rephrase, and almost certain guarantee of bugs. So all 
> comments are welcome, especially bug reports and, of course, patches.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
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