### Name: setClassUnion
### Title: Classes Defined as the Union of Other Classes
### Aliases: setClassUnion isClassUnion ClassUnionRepresentation-class
### Keywords: programming classes

### ** Examples

## a class for either numeric or logical data
setClassUnion("maybeNumber", c("numeric", "logical"))

## use the union as the data part of another class
setClass("withId", representation("maybeNumber", id = "character"))

w1 <- new("withId", 1:10, id = "test 1")
w2 <- new("withId", sqrt(w1)%%1 < .01, id = "Perfect squares")

## add class "complex" to the union "maybeNumber"
setIs("complex", "maybeNumber")

w3 <- new("withId", complex(real = 1:10, imaginary = sqrt(1:10)))

## a class union containing the existing class  union "OptionalFunction"
setClassUnion("maybeCode",
    c("expression", "language", "OptionalFunction"))

is(quote(sqrt(1:10)), "maybeCode")  ## TRUE
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## The following test is less trivial than it looks.
## It depends on the assignment of the data part NOT performing a
## strict coerce to "numeric" on the way to satisfying
## is(ttt, "maybeNumber").
stopifnot(identical(w1@.Data, 1:10))
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