RStudio to Hadoop Kerberos connection issues

We are trying to connect to Hadoop Kerberos server from RStudio for user with valid Kerberos AD ticket (TGT) or ticket cache and observed this error:

"ava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class 
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation"

Please suggest a resolution.

Error Message:

dbConnect(drv,"jdbc:hive2://xxxxx:xxxx/;AuthMech=1;KrbRealm=xxxx;KrbHostFQDNxxxxxx;KrbServiceName=hive;KrbAuthType=2;principal=hive/hxxxxx;ssl=true;sslTrustStore=hivetrust_gen_new.jks;trustStorePassword=xxxxxx;transportMode=http;httpPath=cliservice;")
Sep 14, 2018 4:18:55 PM org.apache.hive.jdbc.Utils parseURL
INFO: Supplied authorities:xxxxxx:xxxx
Sep 14, 2018 4:18:55 PM org.apache.hive.jdbc.Utils parseURL
INFO: Resolved authority: xxxxx:xxxxx
RJavaClassLoader: findResource('org/apache/http/client/version.properties')
RJavaClassLoader: found resource in jar:file:/D:/ExcessBal/R/Jars/httpclient-4.4.jar!/org/apache/http/client/version.properties using URL loader.
Error in .jcall(drv@jdrv, "Ljava/sql/Connection;", "connect", as.character(url)[1],  : 
  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation