diff --git a/plot/denspt.r b/plot/denspt.r
index 1ded94b..e999775 100644
--- a/plot/denspt.r
+++ b/plot/denspt.r
@@ -14,25 +14,32 @@
 #' @param pal_alpha  The transparency of the density layer
 denspt = function(data, mapping, n_tile=50, draw_pt=500, nodens=500, draw_label=60, always_label=c(),
                   tsize=NULL, max_ov=25, h=15, ..., palette="Greys", pal_dir=1, pal_alpha=1) {
-    mis_map = setdiff(c("x", "y", "label"), names(mapping))
+    mis_map = setdiff(c("x", "y"), names(mapping))
     if (length(mis_map) > 0)
         stop("Missing mapping: ", paste(mis_map, collapse=", "))
 
     lx = rlang::as_name(mapping$x)
     ly = rlang::as_name(mapping$y)
-    ll = rlang::as_name(mapping$label)
     keep = apply(data[c(lx, ly)], 1, function(x) !any(is.na(x) | is.infinite(x)))
     data = data[keep,]
     x = data[[lx]]
     y = data[[ly]]
-
     h = c(diff(range(x, na.rm=TRUE))/h[1], diff(range(y, na.rm=TRUE))/rev(h)[1])
     dens = MASS::kde2d(x, y, h, n=n_tile)
     data$dens = fields::interp.surface(dens, data.frame(x=x, y=y))
     data$draw_pt = ifelse(rank(data$dens)<draw_pt, "pt", NA)
-    data[[ll]] = ifelse(rank(data$dens)<draw_label | data[[ll]] %in% always_label, data[[ll]], NA)
-    if (is.null(tsize))
-        tsize = 1.5 + 5 * 1/sqrt(mean(nchar(data[[ll]]), na.rm=TRUE))
+
+    if ("label" %in% names(mapping)) {
+        ll = rlang::as_name(mapping$label)
+        data[[ll]] = ifelse(rank(data$dens)<draw_label | data[[ll]] %in% always_label, data[[ll]], NA)
+        if (is.null(tsize))
+            tsize = 1.5 + 5 * 1/sqrt(mean(nchar(data[[ll]]), na.rm=TRUE))
+        draw_label = ggrepel::geom_label_repel(max.overlaps=max_ov, size=tsize,
+            min.segment.length=0, segment.alpha=0.3, fill="#ffffffa0", label.size=NA,
+            max.iter=1e6, max.time=10, label.padding = unit(0.12, "lines"),
+            box.padding = unit(0.01, "lines"), na.rm=TRUE)
+    } else
+        draw_label = list()
 
     dens_geom = list()
     if (nrow(data) > nodens)
@@ -44,10 +51,7 @@ denspt = function(data, mapping, n_tile=50, draw_pt=500, nodens=500, draw_label=
         geom_vline(xintercept=0, color="grey", linetype="dashed") +
         geom_point(aes(shape=draw_pt, ...)) +
         geom_smooth(color="blue", method="lm", se=FALSE) +
-        ggrepel::geom_label_repel(max.overlaps=max_ov, size=tsize,
-            min.segment.length=0, segment.alpha=0.3, fill="#ffffffa0", label.size=NA,
-            max.iter=1e6, max.time=10, label.padding = unit(0.12, "lines"),
-            box.padding = unit(0.01, "lines"), na.rm=TRUE) +
+        draw_label +
         scale_fill_distiller(palette=palette, trans="log10",
             breaks=c(1,10,50,200,1000,5000,20000), direction=pal_dir) +
         scale_shape_manual(values=c(pt=19)) +