getRClassDefinitions: Compute R classes corresponding to a C++ class
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This function takes a translation unit node defining a class and then computes information about it to define an R class corresponding to that C++ class. It provides the R code to define this class as well as providing information about the ancestor classes. When working in recursive mode, the function can generate the R code to define classes for the entire hierarchy of ancestor classes.

1 2	getRClassDefinitions(node, recursive = FALSE, className = getNodeName(node), defaultBaseClass = "RC++Reference")

`node`	a translation parser node which defines a C++ class. This has class `GCC::Node::type_decl` and is a reference to a Perl object.
`recursive`	a logical value indicating whether to process the node and its ancestor classes recursively or just this leaf node by itself. If this is `TRUE`, the function returns a list with information about each of the classes in the ancestor chain.
`className`	the name to use for the R base of the class name. Note that `"Ptr"` is appended to this.
`defaultBaseClass`	the name of the base R class to use in the R class definition if the specified C++ class does not have any ancestors.

If recursive is FALSE (the default) this returns an object of S3 class ClassDefinition which has fields named:

`definition`
`baseClasses`	a named character vector giving the names of the classes from which this C++ class is derived. The names for this vector are the node identifiers in the translation unit of the corresponding class nodes for these parent classes.
`ancestors`	a named character vector giving the name of the C++ class and the name of that element is the corresponding R class name
`className`	the name of the class being defined