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* [swig] Fix SWIG methods that return char** with StringArray.

+ [new] Add StringArray class to manage and manipulate arrays of fixed-length strings:

  This class is now used to wrap any char** parameters, manage memory and
  manipulate the strings.

  Such class is defined at swig/StringArray.hpp and wrapped in StringArray.i.

+ [API+fix] Wrap LGBM_BoosterGetFeatureNames it resulted in segfault before:

  Added wrapper LGBM_BoosterGetFeatureNamesSWIG(BoosterHandle) that
  only receives the booster handle and figures how much memory to allocate
  for strings and returns a StringArray which can be easily converted to String[].

+ [API+safety] For consistency, LGBM_BoosterGetEvalNamesSWIG was wrapped as well:

  * Refactor to detect any kind of errors and removed all the parameters
    besides the BoosterHandle (much simpler API to use in Java).
  * No assumptions are made about the required string space necessary (128 before).
  * The amount of required string memory is computed internally

+ [safety] No possibility of undefined behaviour

  The two methods wrapped above now compute the necessary string storage space
  prior to allocation, as the low-level C API calls would crash the process
  irreversibly if they write more memory than which is passed to them.

* Changes to C API and wrappers support char**

To support the latest SWIG changes that enable proper char**
return support that is safe, the C API was changed.

The respecive wrappers in R and Python were changed too.

* Cleanup indentation in new lightgbm_R.cpp code

* Adress review code-style comments.

* Update swig/StringArray.hpp
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* Update python-package/lightgbm/basic.py
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* Update src/lightgbm_R.cpp
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* Fix Booster read/write locale dependency

* Address review comments

* Move LocaleContext.h->locale_context.h
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* fixed cpplint errors and disable warning only for VS

* wrap more pragma warning

* [R-package] cleaned up formatting in R C/C++ files

* reverted some indentation changes

* fixed spacing for comments

* lightgbm to LightGBM

* [R-package] Introduced define LGB_BUILD_R to control compilation of lib_lightgbm for the R package

* fixed comment

* switched to cmake options

* fixed typo

* commit

* fix msvc

* fix format

* only one fix

* add more

* add more

* save all param values into model file

* revert storing predict params

* do not save params for predict and convert tasks

* fixed test: 10 is found successfully for default 100

* specify more params as no-save

* speed up for const hessian

* rename template

* some refactorings

* refine

* refine

* simplify codes

* fix random in feature histogram

* code refine

* refine

* try fix

* make gcc happy

* remove timer

* rollback some changes

* more templates

* fix a bug

* reduce the cost of timer

* fix gpu

* fix bug

* fix gpu

* [ci] fixed cpplint warnings about braces

* removed excess line

* fixed cpplint errors

* fixed more cpplint errors

* speed up for const hessian

* rename template

* fix clang build

* template init

* add comment

* refix

* fix config

* avoid to rely on config

* reduce overhead of get num_threads

* add warning

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Apply suggestions from code review

* speed up multi-val bin subset for bagging

* remove the duplicated codes

* code refine

* some codes refactoring

* move `is_constant_hessian` into `TrainingShareStates`

* refine

* fix bug

* fix bug when num_groups_ < 0

* fix gpu

* fix gpu bagging

* fix gpu bug

* typo

* Update src/treelearner/serial_tree_learner.h

* don't cache `num_thread`, to avoid change outside

* rename

* update document

* Update docs/Parameters.rst

* Update include/LightGBM/config.h

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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* fix

* Update multi_val_sparse_bin.hpp

* avoid most_freq_bin to be 0 in categorical features

* Apply suggestions from code review

* add tests

* update test

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Apply suggestions from code review

* removed unused includes

* fixed index

* code refactoring

* update vcproject

* refine

* fix test

* Update tests/python_package_test/test_sklearn.py

* fix test

* fix bagging

* fixed cpplint issues

* updated docs
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* replace std::runtime_error with Log::Fatal

* Update c_api.cpp

* fix random threshold for categorical features

* fixed indents
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* fixed cpplint issues

* fixed cpplint issues

* fix bug when nan bin is most freq bin

* fix naming

* fix bug

* add test

* Apply suggestions from code review

* fix more bugs

* added possibility to render nested sections in params

* reorganize param sections

* reorder params

* try the fix

* fix 2

* try clang

* Apply suggestions from code review

* get back to gcc
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* some refines

* more omp refactoring

* format define

* fix merge bug

* some fixes

* fix some warnings

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Apply suggestions from code review

* remove dup codes