The hat matrix may be used for diagnosis. Note that the full name hat.ssr shoud be used since the function hat already exist.
References
Eubank, R. L. (1984). The Hat Matrix for Smoothing Splines. Statistics and Probability Letters, 2:9-14.
Eubank, R. L. (1985). Diagnostics for Smoothing Splines. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B. 47: 332-341.
Wahba, G. (1990). Spline Models for Observational Data. SIAM, Vol. 59.