[ci] [R-package] add arm64 macOS R-package CI job (fixes #6481) #6494
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Fixes #6481
Proposes adding an arm64 macOS CI job testing the R package. CRAN checks every submission on an arm64 Mac (https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_flavors.html), so hopefully this will help catch issues before attempting submissions to CRAN.
To avoid further growing the CI matrix, this proposes dropping the job that tests the R package compiled with
clang
on Linux with R 3.6. I think that's ok, because there are others covering compiling the R package withgcc
on LinuxLightGBM/.github/workflows/r_package.yml
Lines 58 to 63 in fc788a5
And because we're planning to move away from supporting R 3.6: #6442 (comment)
This should also reduce the manual testing effort for releases: #6439 (comment)