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* Revert "Update dockerfile-r"

This reverts commit 4ff6ffc7e3eeda24cc6a59a3bb0c973f02d9d71c.

* Revert "specify the last supported version of scikit-learn (#2637)"

This reverts commit d1002776.

* ban scikit-learn 0.22.0 and skip broken test

* fix updated test

* fix lint test

* Revert "fix lint test"

This reverts commit 8b4db0805fe7a9e7f7eb0be3eac231f85026d196.

* updated default value for precision in plot_importance function

* fixed typo

* updated example notebook

* add weight in tree model output

* fix bug

* updated Python plotting part to handle weights

* fix travis badge

* updated GitHub Microsoft URL

* added plot_split_value_histogram function

* updated init module

* added plot split value histogram example

* added plot_split_value_histogram to notebook

* added test

* fixed pylint

* updated API docs

* fixed grammar

* set y ticks to int value in more sufficient way

* updated gitignore

* updated tree index with cat feature

* made notebook example interactive

* cleanup

* adding plot example ipynb

* moving notebook to its own notebook folder

* rename notebook folder and ipynb to lowercase and snake case

* fixing importerror, version strings, file imports, printing-->plotting

* removing missed f-string modifier

* added docstring style test and fixed errors in existing docstrings

* hotfix

* hotfix

* fix grammar

* hotfix

* fixed FutureWarning about cv default value

* fixed according to new check_estimator API

* fixed joblib warning

* added example about custom feval with sklearn wrapper

* fixed pylint

* added new example in contents

* unified run example commands for Windows and Linux

* added note about comments in examples conf files

* removed excess import

* added tests for plotting trees in Python

* refined module_INSTALLED mechanism

* added note about that create_tree_digraph is better than plot_tree

* added missed description of plot_example in python_guide folder and fixed consistency for packages naming

* more reliable OS detection

* fixed grammar

* made pylint happy

* Note the relationship between `binary` and `xentropy` in the docs and provide an example that compares them

* Pass pylint and fix docs formatting. "pylint: disable = no-name-in-module" because pylint does not believe scipy.special contains expit

* pass pycodestyle

* pass pycodestyle with correct flags; document example in readme

* updated pep8 to pycodestyle

* fixed E722 do not use bare 'except'

* fixed W605 invalid escape sequence '\*'

* fixed W504 line break after binary operator

* ignore W605 invalid escape sequence '\*' in nuget builder

* made pycodestyle happy

* fixed Python-API references

* moved Features section to ReadTheDocs

* fixed index of ReadTheDocs

* moved Experiments section to ReadTheDocs

* fixed capital letter

* fixed citing

* moved Parallel Learning section to ReadTheDocs

* fixed markdown

* fixed Python-API

* fixed link to Quick-Start

* fixed gpu docker README

* moved Installation Guide from wiki to ReadTheDocs

* removed references to wiki

* fixed capital letters in headings

* hotfixes

* fixed non-Unicode symbols and reference to Python API

* fixed citing references

* fixed links in .md files

* fixed links in .rst files

* store images locally in the repo

* fixed missed word

* fixed indent in Experiments.rst

* fixed 'Duplicate implicit target name' message which is successfully
resolved by adding anchors

* less verbose

* prevented maito: ref creation

* fixed indents

* fixed 404

* fixed 403

* fixed 301

* fixed fake anchors

* fixed file extentions

* fixed Sphinx warnings

* added StrikerRUS profile link to FAQ

* added henry0312 profile link to FAQ

* add python examples to test [test should fail]

* fix example && move some to advanced_example

* fix last line

* refine test python version

The example page state that "simple_example.py" should feature an example of json dump, but that was missing.

* improved sklearn interface; added sklearns' tests

* moved best_score into the if statement

* improved docstrings; simplified LGBMCheckConsistentLength

* fixed typo

* pylint

* updated example

* fixed Ranker interface

* added missed boosting_type

* fixed more comfortable autocomplete without unused objects

* removed check for None of eval_at

* fixed according to review

* fixed typo

* added description of fit return type

* dictionary->dict for short

* markdown cleanup

* fixed capital letters and formating

* fixed CMake capital letters; added VS 2013 to the list of allowed versions

* expose feature importance to c_api

* support type=gain

* remove dump model from examples and tests temporarily because it's unstable

* use double instead of float

* python-package: add graphviz.Digraph parameters

* examples: add a plottig example with graphviz

* fix tree index in print

* Update Python-API.md

* for a better jump in page

A space is needed between `#` and the headers content according to Github's markdown format [guideline](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/)

After adding the spaces, we can jump to the exact position in page by click the link.

* fixed something mentioned by @wxchan

* Update Python-API.md

* Add examples on how to use the saved model

* move 'load model' examples to advanced_example

* add plot metrics

* move 'raise Exception' to check_not_tuple_of_2_elements

* rename 'plot_metrics' to 'plot_metric'

* fix misleading message/docs

* change 'Metrics' in title to 'Metric'

* fix misleading comment