Hello John,
I think I figured out what the issue is. Whenever I have the code chunks
outside a headline for example:

### This does not work ###

#+TITLE:     *scratch*
#+AUTHOR:    Shripad Sinari
#+DATE:      2013-04-17 Wed
#+DESCRIPTION:
#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE:  en
#+OPTIONS:   H:6 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:
http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:
#+LINK_HOME:
#+XSLT:


#+NAME: test1
#+BEGIN_SRC R :results output latex :exports results
  a <- 1:10
  a
#+END_SRC


#+LATEX: \tiny
#+RESULTS: test1
#+LATEX: \normalsize

############################

However just placing the code chunks under a headline works:

#### The following works ####
#+TITLE:     *scratch*
#+AUTHOR:    Shripad Sinari
#+DATE:      2013-04-17 Wed
#+DESCRIPTION:
#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE:  en
#+OPTIONS:   H:6 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:
http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:
#+LINK_HOME:
#+XSLT:

* N1

#+NAME: test1
#+BEGIN_SRC R :results output latex :exports results
  a <- 1:10
  a
#+END_SRC


#+LATEX: \tiny
#+RESULTS: test1
#+LATEX: \normalsize

##############################################

Note the headline =* N1= is the only change between the two codes.
Regards,

Shripad
Tucson, AZ


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:57 PM, shripad sinari <shripad.sinari@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello John,
> I am able to get your test.org to do size change but not my test file.
> Please find it attached herewith. I am sure it is setup issue now.
> Thanks,
> Shripad.
>
> Shripad
> Tucson, AZ
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:53 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:43 PM, shripad sinari
>> <shripad.sinari@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello John,
>> > I have tried this with text but it does not seem to resize the text.
>> Infact
>> > what gets resized is the "#+RESULTS: test" and the rest of the stuff
>> after
>> > that to the #+end_center. It might work for images but does not for
>> text.
>>
>> You must have a setup or installation issue. See the attached .org and
>> resultant .pdf for me.
>>
>> What's in your #+options line (or setupfile)? I'm wondering if you
>> don't have something like =tex:t= or =LaTeX:t= which might be required
>> to pass the commands through?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> John
>>
>>
>> > Regards,
>> > Shripad.
>> >
>> > Shripad
>> > Tucson, AZ
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:13 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:46 PM, shripad sinari
>> >> <shripad.sinari@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hello all,
>> >> > A quick update. Only the named block solution from Jay Kerns
>> currently
>> >> > works. I have tried out variants of other proposed solutions here but
>> >> > none
>> >> > worked.
>> >> > Thanks for your help and sorry for the delay in getting back on this
>> >> > one.
>> >> > Shripad.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I didn't really follow this thread, but I resize things a decent
>> >> amount, but not with \resizebox. It's true that you need named source
>> >> blocks so that after the first C-c C-c on the babel block, you can add
>> >> options and still have it recognized as the results container for that
>> >> particular block. Something like this:
>> >>
>> >> #+name: test
>> >> #+begin_src R :exports results :results output :wrap latex
>> >>
>> >> a <- 1:10
>> >> a
>> >>
>> >> #+end_src
>> >>
>> >> #+latex: \LARGE
>> >> #+RESULTS: test
>> >> #+BEGIN_latex
>> >>  [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>> >> #+END_latex
>> >> #+latex: \normalsize
>> >>
>> >> I don't actually use the above that much, but tend to size plots
>> >> appropriately with something like the following, which is essentially
>> >> the same principle (how to pass latex options to the results of code
>> >> block results while having Org still recognize where to put updated
>> >> results):
>> >>
>> >> #+begin_center
>> >> #+attr_latex: :width 8cm
>> >> #+RESULTS: test
>> >> [[file.pdf]]
>> >> #+end_center
>> >>
>> >> Just thought I'd add another option...
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Shripad
>> >> > Tucson, AZ
>> >> >
>> >> > Shripad
>> >> > Tucson, AZ
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>