Hi Steven, Sorry for the delayed response.
> The problem, however, is that what is exported to html and displayed in the > exported block is either the actual UUID or the tempfile path and not the > results from evaluating the R code. In the case of the tempfile, the tempfile > exists but is empty. Yes, async doesn't work well with export. I think it would be very challenging to make it work correctly. For my recent patch to add this functionality into org-mode [0], my workaround was to simply disable async evaluation during export. [0] https://orgmode.org/list/87h7qi2l2m....@gmail.com/