Nonlinearity

require(car)
# Evaluate Nonlinearity
# component + residual plot 
crPlots(fit)

# Ceres plots 
ceresPlots(fit)

# Non-independence of Errors
# Test for Autocorrelated Errors
durbinWatsonTest(fit)
##  lag Autocorrelation D-W Statistic p-value
##    1       0.1692325       1.57513   0.194
##  Alternative hypothesis: rho != 0