Adding a quantifier to substitution

I was wondering if there is a work around to add a quantifier if I
need to replace a certain pattern with X multiples of certain
character or string like:

$str=~s/<pattern>/R{15}/g; -------> how to replace the pattern with
"R" repeated 15 times?

Thanks.
.

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