R - installing FFTW3 package on Windows machine

Question

I am trying to build a cartogram with R following the algorithm of Gastner & Newman on diffusion-based methods for producing density-equalizing maps

I have found a recipe on how to do it with help of the Getcartr and Rcartogram packages; however, this requires installation of the Fast Fourier Transform libraries FFTW3 and fftw.

I installed fftw easily from CRAN, but I have a problem with FFTW3, which I could only find as an archived file here.

I get the following error message when trying to install the package from a .zip file:

install.packages(choose.files(), type="source", repos=NULL)

Installing package into ‘H:/R.shiny.tutorial/libraries’ (as lib is unspecified)

Warning in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : cannot open compressed file 'fftw-3.3.4/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such file or directory'

Error in read.dcf(file.path(pkgname, "DESCRIPTION"), c("Package", "Type")) : cannot open the connection

Warning in install.packages : running command '"Q:/RSTUD301.001/R-32~1.0/bin/i386/R" CMD INSTALL -l "H:\R.shiny.tutorial\libraries" "F:/cartogram/fftw-3.3.4.zip"' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘F:/cartogram/fftw-3.3.4.zip’ had non-zero exit status

I found some tips on installing FFTW3 on Mac and Linux, but I work on a Windows machine.

I found similar problems online but their solutions do not work for me.

Here is my session.info():

R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) 
Platform: **i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)**
Running under: **Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1**

locale: 
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                            LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252     

attached base packages: 
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): 
[1] tools_3.2.0 

Can you help?