R devel - Oct 2006 - sourcing dput output

Is this not supposed to work?
> dput(BOD, file = "/BOD.R")
> source("/BOD.R")
Error in attributes(.Data) <- c(attributes(.Data), attrib) :
        row names must be 'character' or 'integer', not
'double'
> dput(iris, file = "/iris.R")
> source("/iris.R")
Error in attributes(.Data) <- c(attributes(.Data), attrib) :
        row names must be 'character' or 'integer', not
'double'
> R.version.string # XP
[1] "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-07 r39598)"

I also tried control = "all" as an argument to dput as well as a
number
of other control values but did not find one that worked.

dump("BOD.R", file = "/BOD.R"); source("/BOD.R")

and similarly for iris do work.  Also under 2.3.1pat dput output of these
two data frame could be sourced:
> dput("BOD", file = "/BOD.R")
> source("/BOD.R")
> dput("iris", file = "/iris.R")
> source("/iris.R")
> R.version.string
[1] "Version 2.3.1 Patched (2006-06-04 r38279)"

What is supposed to be the difference between dput and dump anyways
and should dput output be source-able like it used to be?

"Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> writes:
> Is this not supposed to work?
> 
> > dput(BOD, file = "/BOD.R")
> > source("/BOD.R")
> Error in attributes(.Data) <- c(attributes(.Data), attrib) :
>         row names must be 'character' or 'integer', not
'double'
> 
> > dput(iris, file = "/iris.R")
> > source("/iris.R")
> Error in attributes(.Data) <- c(attributes(.Data), attrib) :
>         row names must be 'character' or 'integer', not
'double'
> 
> > R.version.string # XP
> [1] "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-07 r39598)"
> 
> I also tried control = "all" as an argument to dput as well as a
number
> of other control values but did not find one that worked.

Eh?
> dput(iris, file = "/tmp/iris.R")
> source("/tmp/iris.R")
Error in attributes(.Data) <- c(attributes(.Data), attrib) :
        row names must be 'character' or 'integer', not
'double'
> dput(iris, file = "/tmp/iris.R",control="all")
> source("/tmp/iris.R")
> dput(BOD, file = "/tmp/BOD.R",control="all")
> source("/tmp/BOD.R")
>                                                                
Happy as a clam...
>  R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-10-20 r39680)"

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