Remove leading brackets in print?

Hi, I can't seem to get an answer for this by searching through the
R-help archives:  How does one remove leading brackets in print?

For example,

print( 3 )
[1] 3

Would it be possible to get rid of the "[1]"?

Of course the effect is the same without "print", as in,

3
[1] 3

but I would only be interested in omitting brackets in printing, if
that's possible.

Thanks very much!