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* [ci] [C++] drop support for Visual Studio 2015 (fixes #6803)

* update more references

* [ci] some additional changes to drop VS2015 and make it work from solution file (#7046)

* Update LightGBM.vcxproj

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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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* [python-package] add a note about DART in early_stopping docstring

* add note in R docs too

* bump development version to v4.6.0.99

* Auto-update configure

* Update python-package/pyproject.toml

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

* Update append-comment.sh

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* Update interactive_plot_example.ipynb

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* Update rank_objective.hpp

* Update histogram_16_64_256.cu

* Update static_analysis.yml

* ensure alphabetical order of rules

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[R-package] only warn about early stopping and DART boosting being incompatible if early stopping was requested (#6619)

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* [docs] update and simplify installation docs

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* remove more references to CMake and GLIBC versions

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[ci] [R-package] add CI jobs covering more CRAN "additional checks", fix R_NO_REMAP warnings (fixes #6369) (#6523)

* [ci] [R-package] add CI jobs testing newer compilers

* set up vignette-processing dependencies

* remove tinytex

* set up pandoc

* allow NOTEs, one more R_NO_REMAP guard

* restore other CI

* one more R_NO_REMAP guard

* fail builds producing more than 1 NOTE

* update approach for running R CMD check

* fix filepath

* fix paths

* fix variable name

* echo lines

* fix piping

* fix file extension

* clean up

* make R CMD check stricter

[R-package] skip integer categorical feature check when building dataset subset (fixes #6412) (#6442)

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

* Fix test

* Add separate test

* Fix

* Add to cpp config

* Adjust test

* Adjust test

* Debug

* Revert

* Apply suggestions from code review

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