Release CRAN version 1.4.6

Prior to merge with master

[x] increment package version
[x] create release name
[x] update NEWS.md
[x] code check: run devtools::check(args=c("--no-examples", "--no-tests"), vignettes=FALSE), alternatively rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args=c("--no-examples", "--no-tests"))
[x] test check: run devtools::test(): set options("testthat.progress.max_fails"=Inf) and options("Ncpus"=10)
[x] create archives for testing backward compatibility against future versions: run tests/old_experiments/archiveExperiments.R
[x] test backward compatibility against archived experiments: manually run tests/testthat/test-update_object.R
[x] pre-compile vignettes: run vignettes/compile.R
[x] code and vignette check: run devtools::check(args=c("--no-examples", "--no-tests")), alternatively rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck(args=c("--no-examples", "--no-tests"))
[x] reverse dependencies: run revdepcheck::revdep_check()
[x] reverse dependencies: mail maintainers using revdepcheck::revdep_email()
[x] run check: rhub::check_for_cran()
[x] update cran_comments.md
[x] merge dev branch into master

Post-merge

[x] Check for merging errors.
- [x] Run a post-merge code check: devtools::check(env_vars = c("NOT_CRAN"="false"), args=c("--as-cran"))
- [x] Run post-merge test suite, if required.
- [x] Pre-compile vignettes, if required.

CRAN

[x] Build source tarball using devtools::build().
[x] Check CRAN-policies on https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
[x] Upload source tarball to https://cran.r-project.org/submit.html
[x] Check CRAN checks

Github release

[x] prepare a GithHub release
- [x] create source tarball using devtools::build and add as binary.
- [x] copy news from NEWS.md

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