[r] tiledbsoma-r 1.7.0

[johnkerl]

Issue and/or context: Following our established procedure, as I am soon to tag 1.7.0

Changes:

Notes for Reviewer: See also #2040 on the main branch.

[eddelbuettel]

Looks good: 1.6.99.2 which earned it laurels as an RC becoming 1.7.0.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #2041 (81d41d2) into release-1.7 (c9dbc3b) will decrease coverage by 0.10%.
The diff coverage is n/a.

Additional details and impacted files

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  Lines             6845     4189    -2656     
  Branches           206        0     -206     
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- Hits              4642     2837    -1805     
+ Misses            2107     1352     -755     
+ Partials            96        0      -96     

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python_api	∅ <ø> (∅)
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