Installing rsymphony package for r (non-zero exit status)

Question

I am trying to install Rsymphony to be able to install fPortfolio. I get an error when I try to install it;

install.packages("Rsymphony") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Olve/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘Rsymphony’ Do you want to attempt to install these from sources? y/n: y installing the source package ‘Rsymphony’

trying URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Rsymphony_0.1-22.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7447 bytes downloaded 7447 bytes

installing source package 'Rsymphony' ... ** package 'Rsymphony' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Warning: running command 'sh ./configure.win' had status 127 ERROR: configuration failed for package 'Rsymphony'
removing 'C:/Users/Olve/Documents/R/win-library/3.3/Rsymphony'
restoring previous 'C:/Users/Olve/Documents/R/win-library/3.3/Rsymphony' Warning in install.packages : running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.0/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\Users\Olve\Documents\R\win-library\3.3" C:\Users\Olve\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUjRTsG/downloaded_packages/Rsymphony_0.1-22.tar.gz' had status 1 Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘Rsymphony’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in ‘C:\Users\Olve\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpUjRTsG\downloaded_packages’

I use RStudio with R 3.3 and Windows 7 64bit, most of the other posts I have seen related to this is from OSX users getting slightly different error messages, and none of their solutions have helped me (downloading and installing symphony, not sure if i have done this correctly either)

Edit: Stedy's solution worked, thanks.

Stedy Stedy · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-22T18:01:15

Since its a Windows 7 machine, you will want to use the zip file instead of the tar file:

> install.packages('Rsymphony')
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/zstednic/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Package which is only available in source form, and may need compilation of
  C/C++/Fortran: ‘Rsymphony’
  These will not be installed
> install.packages('Rsymphony_0.1-22.zip', repos=NULL)
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/zstednic/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
package ‘Rsymphony’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> library(Rsymphony)
>

Installing rsymphony package for r (non-zero exit status)

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