r random forest error - type of predictors in new data do not match

Question

I am trying to use quantile regression forest function in R (quantregForest) which is built on Random Forest package. I am getting a type mismatch error that I can\'t quite

Answer 1

Expanding on @user1849895's solution:

common <- intersect(names(train), names(test)) 
for (p in common) { 
  if (class(train[[p]]) == "factor") { 
    levels(test[[p]]) <- levels(train[[p]]) 
  } 
}