Fix R test references and make them reproducible

[devmotion]

When working on adding a new distribution, I realized (once again) that the R test references can't be re-generated currently since running Rscript gendref.R errors:

• The LindleyR package is not available anymore
• For distr = StudentizedRange(...) since the function distr$pdf is undefined
• truncated(Normal(...), ...) is not a valid reference name as it can't be mapped to a reference distribution

Moreover, after commenting out these three reference distribution types rerunning Rscript gendref.R changes reference values for most distributions.

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This PR tries to fix the setup of the R reference tests:

• Use renv for a reproducible package environment
• Add a GHA that updates the R environment and reference values (scheduled and manually)
• Replace LindleyR with new.dist
• Use explicit package::function syntax instead of relying on library(package) in other source files
• Calculate (log)pdf reference values of StudentizedRange by finite differencing of (log)cdf
• Allow manual specification of distr$dtype and distr$expr (to support truncated(...) properly)
• Simplify matrix-variate data generation by using StanHeaders instead of rstan
• Improve definition of reference distributions for alternative Julia distribution types (e.g. Erlang and NormalCanon)
• Update test/ref/readme.md
• Update reference values by running Rscript gendref.R

[codecov-commenter]

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 86.37%. Comparing base (3d304c2) to head (dd2a0cc).

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[nalimilan]

So this was incorrect before?

[nalimilan]

Any idea why this line and others disappear?

[nalimilan]

Running this once per month or week would probably be enough? It hasn't been run for years. ;-)

BTW, if it fails, will we be notified (e.g. with an issue)? Otherwise it could fail silently for a long time.