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* [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>

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* [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)

* Update r_package.yml

* replace R 4.1 with R 3.6 for VS 2019 build

* [ci] manually create symlinks to R entrypoints on macOS (fixes #4988)

* exclude non-R CI jobs

* upgrade to R 4.1.2

* get logs for R install

* pin R 4.1.x jobs to macOS-10.15

* update to R 4.1.2 on Windows

* allow for non-latest macOS builds in GHA configuration

* fix prefix check

* fix config check

* more direct check for mac version

* uncomment other CIs

* update R version in CI job names