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* Handling NULL objective when booster is printed, moving test functions out of method tests, creating unique tests for different method situations

* Correcting whitespace

* Adding types for integer slices

* Moving test functions nearer to relevant tests, setting print to be default

* Update R-package/tests/testthat/test_lgb.Booster.R

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[R-package] require lgb.Dataset, remove support for passing 'colnames' and 'categorical_feature' for lgb.train() and lgb.cv() (#6714)

* [python-package] Allow to pass early stopping min delta in params

* Fix test

* Add separate test

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* switch to single prediction type argument

* linter

* missing piece of code

* comments

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* fix test

* revert incorrect 'fix'

* fix failing test

* fix test again

* modify recently introduced tests after changes here

* rename prediction types

* rebase

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* do not produce model files on disk by default

* remove 'save_name' argument from 'lightgbm()'

* [R-package] reduce verbosity in tests using lgb.train()

* Update R-package/tests/testthat/test_lgb.Booster.R

* [R-package] remove support for '...' in lgb.train()

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[R-package] enable saving Booster with saveRDS() and loading it with readRDS() (fixes #4296) (#4685)

* idiomatic serialization

* linter

* linter, namespace

* comments, linter, fix failing test

* standardize error messages for null handles

* auto-restore handle in more functions

* linter

* missing declaration

* correct wrong signature

* fix docs

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* Update R-package/R/lgb.drop_serialized.R
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* Update R-package/R/lgb.restore_handle.R
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* Update R-package/R/lgb.restore_handle.R
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* Update R-package/R/lgb.make_serializable.R
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* move 'restore_handle' from feature importance to dump method

* missing header

* move arguments order, update docs

* linter

* avoid leaving files in working directory

* add test for save_model=NULL

* missing comma

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* Update R-package/src/lightgbm_R.cpp
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* change name of error function

* update comment

* restore old serialization functions but set as deprecated

* Update R-package/R/readRDS.lgb.Booster.R
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* Update R-package/R/saveRDS.lgb.Booster.R
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* update docs

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* Update R-package/R/saveRDS.lgb.Booster.R
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* Update R-package/tests/testthat/test_basic.R
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* Update R-package/R/readRDS.lgb.Booster.R
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* comments

* fix variable name

* restore serialization test for linear models

* Update R-package/R/lightgbm.R
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* update docs

* fix issues with null terminator
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* add print and summary S3 method

* correct wrong signature

* attempt at bypassing linter

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* Update R-package/src/lightgbm_R.h
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* Update include/LightGBM/c_api.h
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* add more tests

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* don't pluralize single tree

* remove duplicated function

* update changed function name

* missing declaration

* Update lightgbm_R.h

* Update R-package/tests/testthat/test_lgb.Booster.R
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* accommodate custom objectives in print

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* [R-package] allow for small numerical differences in Booster test

* only use less-strict test on Windows

* [R-package] fix segfaults caused by missing Booster and Dataset handles (fixes #4208)

* fix test errors

* fixes for cpplint

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* fix tests

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* move asserts inside try-catch
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* fix R memory leaks

* attempt at solving linter complaints

* fix compilation on windows

* move R_API_BEGIN to correct place

* make sure exception objects reach out of scope

* better way to solve rchk complaints

* remove goto statement

[docs] Clarify the fact that predict() on a file does not support saved Datasets (fixes #4034) (#4545)

* documentation changes

* add list of supported formats to error message

* add unit tests

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* update per review comments

* make references consistent
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* [R-package] move more finalizer logic intoo C++ side

* add C finalizers

* use gc()

* put skip() back

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* [R-package] move creation of character vectors in some methods to C++ side

* convert LGBM_BoosterGetEvalNames_R

* convert LGBM_BoosterDumpModel_R and LGBM_BoosterSaveModelToString_R

* remove debugging code

* update docs

* remove comment

* add handling for larger model strings

* handle large strings in feature and eval names

* got long feature names working

* more fixes

* linting

* resize

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* stricter test
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* remove unused params from tests for the speedup

* Update test_lgb.Booster.R