graph.union() was renamed to union.igraph() to create a more
consistent API.
graph.union(..., byname = "auto")Graph objects or lists of graph objects.
A logical scalar, or the character scalar auto. Whether
to perform the operation based on symbolic vertex names. If it is
auto, that means TRUE if all graphs are named and FALSE
otherwise. A warning is generated if auto and some (but not all)
graphs are named.