copyTo() function can only copy data between the matrices of same size (width and height) and same type. For this reason you can't use it directly to copy row of matrix to column of matrix. Normally OpenCV will reallocate target matrix so that its size and type will match original image, but call to col() function returns constant temporary object that can't be reallocated. As a result your program crushed.
Actually this problem can be solved. You can copy row to column (if they have same amount of elements) and you can copy data between matrices of different types. Mat provides an iterator to its data, and that means you can use all C++ functions that works with iterators. copy() function for example.
Mat A(640, 480, CV_64F);
Mat B(480, 1, CV_32S); // note that the type don't have to be the same
Mat tmp = A.row(0); // no data is copied here. it is needed only because taking iterator to temporary object is really bad idea
copy(tmp.begin<double>(), tmp.end<double>(), B.begin<int>());