What does "package" mean here?

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Seven years on, the practice of science is becoming more open, and a culture of sharing preprints, data sets, and scientific code is spreading. Ram—one of the pioneers—is prodding and enabling that shift. In 2011, he and his colleagues created rOpenSci, a platform and repository that boasts dozens of open-source data-and-analysis packages serving fields ranging from climate science to vertebrate biology via human genetics. Today, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded the project, which operates out of U.C. Berkeley, a second round of funding, bringing its total funding to $481,000. rOpenSci is one of a growing community of tools—Dryad, Mendeley, figshare, GitHub, and arXiv are others—that help scientists more easily share data and other resources. “We’re trying to bring the culture across disciplines

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What does "package" mean here?

An item or items of computer software related by purpose- we can say a word-processing package, a statistics package, etc.

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@contrex,

Thanks.
Does " operates out of U.C. Berkeley" mean " operates out of the campus of U.C. Berkeley (but related to U.C. Berkeley"?

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Thanks.
Does " operates out of U.C. Berkeley" mean " operates out of the campus of U.C. Berkeley (but related to U.C. Berkeley"?

Yes.

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@oristarA,

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Does " operates out of U.C. Berkeley" mean " operates out of the campus of U.C. Berkeley (but related to U.C. Berkeley"?

From your question, I'm not sure if you've understood this completely.
"Out of" here just means "from".
One assumes the company is part of the University of California at Berkeley.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

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Does " operates out of U.C. Berkeley" mean " operates out of the campus of U.C. Berkeley (but related to U.C. Berkeley"?

From your question, I'm not sure if you've understood this completely.
"Out of" here just means "from".
One assumes the company is part of the University of California at Berkeley.

Excellent!

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@oristarA,

It's an American expression we don't use much in Britain.

It DOESN'T mean "outside of", which you may have assumed.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

It's an American expression we don't use much in Britain.

Tony Soprano did some business with some guys outa Boston once, I seem to remember.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

It's an American expression we don't use much in Britain.

It DOESN'T mean "outside of", which you may have assumed.

Does the "out of" in following also mean "from"?

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Do not, for one moment, think of such Darwinizing as demeaning
or reductive of the noble emotions of compassion and generosity.
Nor of sexual desire. Sexual desire, when channelled through the
conduits of linguistic culture, emerges as great poetry and drama:
John Donne's love poems, say, or Romeo and Juliet. And of course
the same thing happens with the misfired redirection of kin- and
reciprocation-based compassion. Mercy to a debtor is, when seen
out of context, as un-Darwinian as adopting someone else's child:
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Does the "out of" in following also mean "from"?

No; it has the standard meaning, 'external to', 'outside of', 'separate to'.

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@contrex,

What a difficult language we have!

I'm out of potatoes and soap.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Out of sight, out of mind (blind and mad/crazy)
Wink

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

What a difficult language we have!

I'm out of potatoes and soap.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Out of sight, out of mind (blind and mad/crazy)

Failed to understand "I'm out of potatoes and soap".
Does it mean "I've grown up in countryside"?

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@oristarA,

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Failed to understand "I'm out of potatoes and soap".
Does it mean "I've grown up in countryside"?

Good guess, but no. Full marks for out-of-the-box thinking! Smile

It means I've run out of supplies of potatoes and soap. So I must add them to my shopping list.

"A book is a man's best friend, outside of a dog. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx, American humourist.

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@McTag,

I'm out of kilter ... but neither out of town nor out of the woods.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Sorry to hear you're out of sorts, Walter. But don't worry, you'll soon snap out of it. Smile

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