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* [docs] [R-package] fix HTML generation errors in R docs, update to roxygen2 7.3.3

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* Add R-squared metric, documentation, and tests

* Fix static ci checks: correct Sklearn r2_score URL link, fix cpp linting errors

* Replace non-static data members from pragma reduction with variables

* Update src/metric/metric.cpp

* Add additional asserts, remove needless y.copy()

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* [c++] default to C++17 for most builds

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* fix formatting

[ci][docs] fix link checking action by switching from linkchecker to lychee and update some links (#7027)

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

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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

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* bump development version to v4.6.0.99

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

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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)