[MINC-users] RMINC v0.4

[Jason Lerch]

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