Placing the Stata Manuals in your iPad

You possibly can set up the Stata manuals in your iPad. Right here’s how: set up GoodReader and duplicate the manuals out of your laptop to your iPad. It takes a couple of minutes and can price you about $7 to buy the app.

As soon as put in, launch GoodReader, press the bookmark icon on the backside of the display screen, and GoodReader reveals you the checklist of the manuals.

Effectively, that’s solely a partial checklist. We’d need to scroll to see all of them.

In case you faucet on a handbook, it opens,

You possibly can swipe to go ahead,

All of the hyperlinks are reside. In case you faucet on graph intro, the reader jumps to the handbook entry,

Listed below are some formulation:

For example formulation, I jumped to mi estimate within the [MI] handbook. I can leap wherever as a result of I’ve all 21 manuals—all 11,000-plus pages—put in on my iPad.

You possibly can have them put in in your iPad, too.

Right here’s how.

Step 1. Set up GoodReader in your iPad

You should buy GoodReader 4 from the App Retailer. No different PDF reader will do. What makes GoodReader a very good reader for the Stata manuals is that it could possibly deal with hyperlinks throughout manuals. As of this date, solely GoodReader will do that.

Step 2. Copy the manuals

We’re going to copy the manuals out of your laptop to your iPad. You want a pc containing Stata. This doesn’t need to be the identical laptop to which you sync your iPad.

Earlier than we try this, nonetheless, let’s confirm your Stata is updated. We need to copy the the newest model of the manuals, and StataCorp generally updates them. Launch Stata and kind replace question. Comply with replace‘s directions if there’s an replace. Updates are free.

We’re prepared to repeat. There are two methods you’ll be able to copy the manuals. You possibly can bodily copy them utilizing iTunes by plugging your iPad into your laptop, or you’ll be able to use GoodReader to wirelessly copy them. We advocate utilizing iTunes as a result of the opposite methodology requires file sharing be enabled on the pc and setting that up could be troublesome.

Possibility 1 (really helpful): Copy the manuals utilizing iTunes

 
Copying the manuals with iTunes is easy and is the strategy we advocate.

1. Plug your iPad into the pc that has Stata on it and unlock the iPad if vital. In case you don’t use this laptop to sync your iPad, the iPad will ask whether or not you “Belief this Laptop?”. Faucet Belief.
2. Launch iTunes if it hasn’t already launched itself.
3. The remaining steps you carry out in your laptop, in iTunes:
1. Choose your iPad from the upper-right nook of the iTunes window.

   

2. Click on the Apps tab on the prime of the iTune’s window. Don’t backup or restore your iPad.
3. Use the mouse to place the cursor on white area within the iTunes window, in order that all the window scrolls. Scroll to the underside till you see the heading File Sharing and the lists beneath it.
4. Choose GoodReader—it’s within the Apps checklist on the left. The checklist on the precise will grow to be GoodReader Paperwork.

   

5. Click on the Add… button beneath GoodReader Paperwork. A file dialog will seem.
6. Within the file dialog, navigate to the Stata folder and open it so that you just see its contents. The Stata folder is positioned in C:Program FilesStata13 in 32-bit Home windows, C:Program Information (x86)Stata13 in 64-bit Home windows, and /Functions/Stata on the Mac.
7. Choose the docs folder then click on the Add button.

As soon as the docs folder seems in GoodReader Paperwork checklist, you’re carried out! Unplug your iPad from the pc. If it makes you are feeling higher, you’ll be able to eject your iPad first.

Skip to Viewing the manuals beneath.

Possibility 2: Copy the manuals wirelessly

GoodReader can copy the manuals wirelessly out of your laptop and, even higher, preserve the copied manuals in sync with the manuals on the pc. Nevertheless, file sharing should be enabled in your laptop and setting that up could be troublesome. So we’ll simply assume that file sharing is working and, in case you have hassle utilizing file sharing, copy the manuals utilizing iTunes as lined above.

1. Launch GoodReader.
2. Faucet the Join icon within the higher proper nook of the display screen.

   

3. Faucet the Add button subsequent to the Connect with Servers label.

   

4. A listing of doable connection varieties will seem. In case you’re utilizing Home windows, choose SMB Server. In case you’re utilizing a Mac, choose AFP Server.
5. Enter the login data for the server then faucet the Add button.
6. Faucet the server you simply added from the Recognized Servers checklist. A file dialog will seem.
7. Navigate to the Stata folder utilizing the file navigator. The Stata folder is positioned in C:Program FilesStata13 in 32-bit Home windows, C:Program Information (x86)Stata13 in 64-bit Home windows, and /Functions/Stata on the Mac. To open a folder, faucet the arrow subsequent to the folder identify.
8. Within the Stata folder, choose the docs folder.
9. If you want for GoodReader to maintain the manuals in your iPad in sync with manuals in your laptop, faucet the Sync button. In case you want to simply copy the manuals to your iPad, faucet the Obtain button.
10. One other file navigator seems to can help you select the place the manuals will probably be saved. If you wish to have the manuals in your iPad routinely synced together with your laptop, faucet the Obtain right here & synchronize button. In case you simply need the manuals copied over to your iPad, faucet the Obtain folder right here button.
11. In case you tapped Obtain right here & synchronize, one other popup window will seem permitting you to switch the sync choices. Simply faucet the Sync button to begin the sync.

As soon as the obtain has accomplished, the progress window will shut and also you’re carried out!

Viewing the manuals

Launch GoodReader.

This primary time, it is going to present you a listing of folders. Choose docs to open the folder and examine a listing of Stata manuals.

Choose one. GoodReader will present you the primary web page of the handbook, surrounded by GoodReader icons. Faucet as soon as in the midst of the display screen to cover the icons. Faucet later in the midst of the display screen to carry them again.

Probably the most helpful icon is bookmarks positioned on the heart on the backside of the display screen,

Faucet the icon and the checklist of manuals reappears within the Outlines tab so to select one other handbook.

Updating the manuals

StataCorp generally updates the manuals. Refreshing the manuals in your iPad is simple sufficient.

In case you copied the manuals utilizing iTunes — and even should you didn’t — you’ll be able to repeat the steps to copy the manuals utilizing iTunes.

In case you copied the manuals wirelessly, simply faucet the the Sync button from the principle display screen of GoodReader whereas your iPad is on the identical community as the pc.

When manuals had been actual, I used to put in writing in them. I’d spotlight one thing I assumed necessary, or put an arrow right here or there. With digital manuals, that’s known as annotating.

There’s a problem with annotating, nonetheless. In case you replace your manuals, you lose your annotations. So both don’t annotate or don’t replace.