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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

* [ci]: Bump actions/checkout from 1 to 4 in the ci-dependencies group

Bumps the ci-dependencies group with 1 update: [actions/checkout](https://github.com/actions/checkout).


Updates `actions/checkout` from 1 to 4
- [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/actions/checkout/compare/v1...v4

)

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updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: actions/checkout
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-major
  dependency-group: ci-dependencies
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Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>

* downgrade a few

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Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: James Lamb <jaylamb20@gmail.com>

[ci] Skip Arrow tests on AppVeyor, use Intel macOS runners, upgrade to XCode 14.3 on macOS jobs, disable MacOS MPI jobs (#6425)

* [ci] update to R 4.1.3 and use macOS-latest for R jobs (fixes #4990)

* update Windows version

* update docs env

* simplify r-package config

[R-package] Promote number of threads to top-level argument in `lightgbm()` and change default to number of cores (#4972)