Hi,

I have 4 vectors of the same length. I joinded them in a matrix in which every row is a vector, with the command:

TOT=do.call(rbind,list)

in which TOT is the final matrix and list is a list with the 4 vectors.

Then i use normalize.quantiles on this matrix and i get this error

Error in normalize.quantiles(x = TOT) : 
  vector types do not match in copyVector

do you know why? 

Thank you.

This works for me:

set.seed(123)
mylist <- lapply(1:5, function(k) {
  sample(1:100, size = 10, replace = TRUE)
})
mylist
[[1]]
 [1] 29 79 41 89 95  5 53 90 56 46

[[2]]
 [1] 96 46 68 58 11 90 25  5 33 96

[[3]]
 [1]  89  70  65 100  66  71  55  60  29  15

[[4]]
 [1] 97 91 70 80  3 48 76 22 32 24

[[5]]
 [1] 15 42 42 37 16 14 24 47 27 86

m <- do.call(rbind, mylist)
m
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
[1,]   29   79   41   89   95    5   53   90   56    46
[2,]   96   46   68   58   11   90   25    5   33    96
[3,]   89   70   65  100   66   71   55   60   29    15
[4,]   97   91   70   80    3   48   76   22   32    24
[5,]   15   42   42   37   16   14   24   47   27    86

library(preprocessCore)
normalize.quantiles(m)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [,9] [,10]
[1,] 30.0 70.3 21.4 70.3 86.1 21.4 54.6 86.1 86.1  54.6
[2,] 70.3 30.0 70.3 30.0 30.0 86.1 30.0 21.4 70.3  86.1
[3,] 54.6 54.6 54.6 86.1 70.3 70.3 70.3 70.3 30.0  21.4
[4,] 86.1 86.1 86.1 54.6 21.4 54.6 86.1 30.0 54.6  30.0
[5,] 21.4 21.4 30.0 21.4 54.6 30.0 21.4 54.6 21.4  70.3
 
sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.10.4 (Yosemite)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] preprocessCore_1.30.0 fortunes_1.5-2        dplyr_0.4.2           tidyr_0.2.0          
[5] reshape2_1.4.1        ggplot2_1.0.1         lattice_0.20-31       devtools_1.8.0       

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.11.6      xml2_0.1.1       magrittr_1.5     MASS_7.3-42      munsell_0.4.2   
 [6] colorspace_1.2-6 R6_2.1.0         stringr_1.0.0    plyr_1.8.3       tools_3.2.1     
[11] parallel_3.2.1   grid_3.2.1       gtable_0.1.2     DBI_0.3.1        git2r_0.10.1    
[16] rversions_1.0.1  digest_0.6.8     assertthat_0.1   curl_0.9.1       memoise_0.2.1   
[21] stringi_0.5-5    scales_0.2.5     proto_0.3-10 

So maybe you could provide more details about what are you doing including your system information when running the code (i.e. output of sessionInfo())