error: no matching function for call to ‘std::vector

I am trying to debug this code from my supervisor and I'm new to C++.

I found a few similar no matching function for call to questions, which gave me ideas what the problem might be but was not able to solve it.

I have listed my thoughts below the error message and relevant function.

Error message:

In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
distanceMatrixToSageGraph.c:104:43: error: no matching function for call to 
‘std::vector<std::vector<int>>::push_back(std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char> >&)’     
the_entries.push_back( row_as_vector );

Relevant function:

int main(int argc, char** threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename)
{
    if (argc < 2 || argc > 2) 
    {
        std::cerr << "Usage: ./distanceMatrixToSageGraph.o <threshold> 

            <distanceMatrix_file_calculated_fromDGEsingleCell_data>" << std::endl;
            return -1;
    }
    string distanceMatrixfilename = threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[2];
    int threshold = std::stoi(threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[1]);
    std::ifstream distanceMatrixFile(distanceMatrixfilename);

    if (!distanceMatrixFile)
    {
        std::cerr << "Error opening distanceMatrix file: " << distanceMatrixfilename << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }
    string row;
    std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row); // discard the first row, which specifies the format of the file.
    vector<vector<int>> the_entries;

    while (std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row))
    {
        std::stringstream row_as_stringstream(row);
        int i; i = 0;
        vector<string> row_as_vector;

        while (row_as_stringstream.good())
        {
            string substr;
            getline(row_as_stringstream, substr, ',');
            row_as_vector.push_back(substr);
        };
        the_entries.push_back(row_as_vector); //LINE 104
    };
}

Ideas:

• It would be great if someone could explain to me: std::vector<std::vector<int>>::push_back(std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>>&)
• I understand that std::vector<std::vector<int>> is a matrix and that push_back adds an element at the end of the vector.
• I suspect that we're trying to read in the wrong type in the_entries.push-back(row_as_vector).

• The original code took a csv file as input, containing integers and strings. Now we're reading in a txt file having the shape:

  TEXT 0; INT; INT; INT; INT; ... 0; INT; INT; INT; INT; ... 18 more lines of the above numbers and semicolons

  In the above, we remove the first row in line 89.

• Is it possible the code has to be changed much more to be able to read this txt file instead of the csv file?

Rest of error message:

In file included from /usr/include/c++/6/vector:64:0,
                 from distanceMatrixToSageGraph.c:13:
/usr/include/c++/6/bits/stl_vector.h:914:7: note: candidate: void std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::push_back(const value_type&) [with _Tp = std::vector<int>; _Alloc = std::allocator<std::vector<int> >; std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::value_type = std::vector<int>]
       push_back(const value_type& __x)
       ^~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/c++/6/bits/stl_vector.h:914:7: note:   no known conversion for argument 1 from ‘std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char> >’ to ‘const value_type& {aka const std::vector<int>&}’
/usr/include/c++/6/bits/stl_vector.h:932:7: note: candidate: void std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::push_back(std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::value_type&&) [with _Tp = std::vector<int>; _Alloc = std::allocator<std::vector<int> >; std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::value_type = std::vector<int>]
       push_back(value_type&& __x)
       ^~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/c++/6/bits/stl_vector.h:932:7: note:   no known conversion for argument 1 from ‘std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char> >’ to ‘std::vector<std::vector<int> >::value_type&& {aka std::vector<int>&&}’

Whole code:

// Convert distanceMatrix tables of protein interactions to SAGE graph.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <tuple>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

void writeGraphInSageFormat(string name, std::vector<std::vector<int>> TheEdges) 
{
    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Write out the edges in SAGE format.
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    int edgeNumber = TheEdges.size();
    ofstream d1sageFile(name, ios::out);
    d1sageFile << "g = Graph([" << endl;

    for (int n = 0; n < edgeNumber; n++) {
        d1sageFile << "(" << TheEdges[n][0] + 1 << "," << TheEdges[n][1] + 1 << ")," << endl;
    }
    d1sageFile << "])" << endl;
    d1sageFile << "g.show()" << endl;
    d1sageFile.close();
    std::cout << "SAGE graph written into the file " << name << std::endl;
}

std::vector<std::vector<int>> ConvertEntriesMatrixToEdges(vector<vector<int>> the_entries, int threshold) 
{
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Construct the edge-vertex incidence matrix (d_1) from the distanceMatrix entries matrix:
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    std::vector<std::string> proteinNames;
    std::vector<std::vector<int>> TheEdges;
    std::cout << "Registering only edges shorter than " << threshold << "." << std::endl;
    int thisDistance;
    for (int i = 0; i < the_entries.size(); i++)
    {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < the_entries.size(); j++)
        {
            // we could use the_entries.size() instead of the_entries.at(i).size(), because this is a square matrix.
            thisDistance = the_entries.at(i).at(j);
            if (thisDistance < threshold) 
            {
                std::vector<int> CurrentEdge(2);
                CurrentEdge[0] = i;
                CurrentEdge[1] = j;
                TheEdges.push_back(CurrentEdge);
            };
        };
    };
    return TheEdges;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////
// Main Program: Extract edges from a distanceMatrix file.
///////////////////////////////////////////
int main(int argc, char** threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename)
{
    if (argc < 2 || argc > 2)
    {
        std::cerr << "Usage: ./distanceMatrixToSageGraph.o <threshold> <distanceMatrix_file_calculated_fromDGEsingleCell_data>" << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }
    string distanceMatrixfilename = threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[2];
    int threshold = std::stoi(threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[1]);
    std::ifstream distanceMatrixFile(distanceMatrixfilename);
    if (!distanceMatrixFile) {
        std::cerr << "Error opening distanceMatrix file: " << distanceMatrixfilename << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }
    string row;  //LINE 88
    std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row); // discard the first row, which specifies the format of the file.
    vector<vector<int>> the_entries;

    while (std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row))
    {
        std::stringstream row_as_stringstream(row);
        int i; i = 0;
        vector<string> row_as_vector;
        while (row_as_stringstream.good())
        {
            string substr;
            getline(row_as_stringstream, substr, ',');
            row_as_vector.push_back(substr);
        };
        the_entries.push_back(row_as_vector); //LINE 104
    };
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Now we assemble the entries to an edges matrix, and write it into a Sage file:
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    std::vector<std::vector<int>> TheEdges = ConvertEntriesMatrixToEdges(the_entries, threshold);    
    char outputFilename[60]; strcpy(outputFilename, distanceMatrixfilename.c_str()); strcat(outputFilename, "AtThreshold"); string thrshld = std::to_string(threshold); strcat(outputFilename, thrshld.c_str()); strcat(outputFilename, ".txt");
    writeGraphInSageFormat(outputFilename, TheEdges);
    return 0;
}