weights is a generic function which extracts fitting weights from
  objects returned by modeling functions.
Methods can make use of napredict methods to compensate
  for the omission of missing values.  The default methods does so.
weights(object, …)an object for which the extraction of model weights is meaningful.
other arguments passed to methods.
Weights extracted from the object object: the default method
  looks for component "weights" and if not NULL calls
  napredict on it.
Chambers, J. M. and Hastie, T. J. (1992) Statistical Models in S. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.