I reported this on the mailing list as a question, but it appears to be an actual bug, so I thought I should file it formally. The following MWE shows the problem when trying to export an R character vector:
#+begin_src R :exports results :results value list c("x","y","z") #+end_src #+RESULTS: - ("x") - ("y") - ("z") This is clearly not what is wanted, more or less ever. What works, instead, requires R manipulation of the results, of the form: #+BEGIN_SRC R :exports results :results output raw a <- c("x","y","z") cat(paste("-", a), sep="\n") #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: - x - y - z Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org Package: Org-mode version 7.8.11