Roll Periods
In order to smooth out the display of a series you can specify a rollPeriod. This will result in each plotted point representing an average of the number of timestamps specified in the roll period. The roll period will be displayed in a text box at the bottom-left of the plot so that viewers of the plot are aware of the averaging and so that they can change it if they like.
The dyRoller function adds a roller with a specified roll period:
dygraph(discoveries, main = "Important Discoveries") %>%
dyRoller(rollPeriod = 5)