If you use ggplot you won't need to do it as a loop, you can plot them all at once. Also, you need to reformat your data so that it's in long format not short format. You can use the melt function from the reshape package to do so.
library(reshape2)
new.df<-melt(HEIrank11,id.vars="HEI.ID")
names(new.df)=c("HEI.ID","Year","Rank")
substring is just getting rid of the X in each year
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(new.df, aes(x=HEI.ID,y=Rank,fill=substring(Year,2)))+
geom_histogram(stat="identity",position="dodge")