Start to remove stringsAsFactors references

[mikemahoney218]

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This PR does two main things:

1. Updates Episode 3 to remove references to stringsAsFactors, and to update examples and text to match modern R versions.
2. Updates Episode 4 to remove stringsAsFactors = FALSE where it no longer changes how the code works.

I also removed two stringsAsFactors calls from renv/activate.R which shouldn't change execution at all.

I left in the stringsAsFactors = TRUE seen in Episode 4, though I'm not confident it does anything, as well as the discussion of factors at the end of episode 4. I think there's probably a larger discussion to be had about if that section is serving our needs with R 4.3+, but I want to check and see if factors are used later in this workshop before I propose cutting it out.

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[likeajumprope]

This sounds plausible to me. If @albhasan agrees I think we could merge this.

[likeajumprope]

Sound plausible to me.

[albhasan]

This sounds plausible to me. If @albhasan agrees I think we could merge this.

I agree!