Get data from lines() function - r

I have a plot like this (black points):
I calculate the average of some points (smoothing - the red points in the plot).
Then I can draw with the lines() function a line between these points (blue in the plot). What I want now is the data of the blue line.
Does somebody know how to do this? Is it even possible?

I used the approx function which interpolates between points:
approx(x = r, y = ionizations, n = 1000)

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Value:
[...]
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I want to find the total area from multiple polygons within different contour lines from kernel densities (kde2d).
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