I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and OpenCV 2

I have written the following code : 

IplImage* img =0;
img = cvLoadImage("nature.jpg");
if(img != 0)
{
    Mat Img_mat(img);
    std::vector<Mat> RGB;
    split(Img_mat, RGB);

    int data = (RGB[0]).at<int>(i,j)); /*Where i, j are inside the bounds of the matrix size .. i have checked this*/ 
}

The problem is I am getting negative values and very large values in the data variable. I think I have made some mistake somewhere. Can you please point it out.
I have been reading the documentation (I have not finished it fully.. it is quite large. ) But from what I have read, this should work. But it isnt. What is going wrong here?

c++ opencv image-processing
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