Fail earlier when user try to install future version of R

Closes https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker/issues/1455

repo2docker/buildpacks/r.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import datetime
 import os
 import re
+import warnings
 from functools import lru_cache
 
 import requests
@@ -99,9 +100,18 @@ class RBuildPack(PythonBuildPack):
                 # available. Users can however explicitly specify the full version to get something specific
                 if r_version in version_map:
                     r_version = version_map[r_version]
-                elif len(r_version.split(".")) == 2:
+                else:
-                    # must have x.y.z version, add .0 for unrecognized (future) R versions
+                    # Instead of appending ".0" to future R versions,
-                    r_version += ".0"
+                    # repo2docker fails earlier with a meaningful message to the user.
+                    # If repo2docker doesn't fail here, repo2docker might fail later
+                    # without a meaningul message to the user.
+                    raise RuntimeError(
+                        f"R version {r_version} is not supported. Please open an issue using  https://github.com/jupyterhub/repo2docker/issues/new?template=BLANK_ISSUE.",
+                    )
+            else:
+                warnings.warn(
+                    f"Using R version {r_version} instead of full version, i.e. MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH."
+                )
 
             # translate to the full version string
             self._r_version = r_version