Reading integer from text file to modulate Sonic Pi parameter

It is possible to read and write text files from Sonic Pi. I have done two projects which utilise this.

and more recently

The latter uses a json file format.
The links give full articles including links to the software code.

EDIT
Alternatively If you don’t need to store the integers permanently you can use a python osc client to send integer data to Sonic Pi, which again I have done in several projects. eg see this article