Unable to disable Hive support in SparkR when Hadoop version is unsupported

sparkSession <- sparkR.session("local[4]", "SparkR", Sys.getenv("SPARK_HOME"),
                               list(spark.driver.extraClassPath = jarpaths,
                                    spark.executor.extraClassPath = jarpaths),
                               enableHiveSupport = FALSE)

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unrecognized Hadoop major version number: 3.1.1.3.1.0.0-78
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.getMajorVersion(ShimLoader.java:174)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.loadShims(ShimLoader.java:139)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.getHadoopShims(ShimLoader.java:100)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf$ConfVars.<clinit>(HiveConf.java:368)
	... 43 more
Error in handleErrors(returnStatus, conn) :
  java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.<clinit>(HiveConf.java:105)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
	at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.classForName(Utils.scala:193)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession$.hiveClassesArePresent(SparkSession.scala:1116)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.api.r.SQLUtils$.getOrCreateSparkSession(SQLUtils.scala:52)
	at org.apache.spark.sql.api.r.SQLUtils.getOrCreateSparkSession(SQLUtils.scala)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.spark.api.r.RBackendHandler.handleMethodCall(RBackendHandler.scala:167)
	at org.apache.spark.api.r.RBackendHandler.channelRead0(RBackendHandler.scala:108)
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